Abel Ferrara Quotes
The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
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I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.
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I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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I like music a lot.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in Mumbai, the 'big city', will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them.
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People know not to mess with my friends or my family because it's not going to work out well for you.
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I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of high school basketball shoes.
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The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
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I thought I would be more inspired to have all these new feelings to talk about, but I really just want to hang out with my daughter.
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I've been wanting kids for 10 years. I'd love to adopt, have them naturally - all of it. I want, like, 15.
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The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.
