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 FERRARAListen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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But I’m never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is.
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him
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I’m in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song.
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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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