I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
ABEL FERRARAI don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it’s like, ‘Yes, let’s do it.’
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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Although 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.
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I was raised a Catholic and when you’re raised a Catholic they don’t teach you to think for yourself. You’re taught not to think too deeply about things.
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As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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Then there’s that thing, maybe it’s not true. Who knows? Are you going to believe it? Are you going to buy it?
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So what. What are you going to do? Jump off the Empire State Building?” It’s all still the same. The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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