The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
ABEL FERRARAAlthough I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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It’s funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it’s fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
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With ‘New Rose Hotel,’ I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that’s all I was going to get.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I’m talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I’m not talking about mental illness.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself.
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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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