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.’
ABEL FERRARAMy grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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I’m about my characters.
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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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And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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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 live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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