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.
ABEL FERRARAA lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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I don’t know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.
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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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’m living in a real postmodern time – every single thing sings to you to tell you it’s started, it’s stopped, you’ve got a message, you didn’t get a message.
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There are a lot of other things that are important, you know. You know what they say. Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don’t find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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My life is proof that I don’t need you to do what I do. If there’s no one to see it, I’ll watch it.
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