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Abel Ferrara

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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Direct Fee Getting Hotel Paid Produce Rose Writing
My job is going to be to direct the film – I’m going to do it. And that’s where my job ends.
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Direct End Film Going Job
He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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Culture English Food Language never Spoke Word
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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Buck Bullshit Couple Deal Guess Million People Poet Raise
How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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Help Mine Other People Thing Type
A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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Formation Literature Piece Process Script
Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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Actor Filmmaking Hand Movie Shake Starting
That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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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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Cost Determination Imagination Life Limit Point
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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Addiction Alcohol Drug Eating Gambling Sex Talking
I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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never Problem
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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Actor Budget Certain Low Movie Ripped Thinking Wanna Working
It’s always a problem when you’re working with people you don’t really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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Done Filmmaking Most People Problem Starting Working
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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And the people doing them don’t even know each other, or know each other under pressure, or know each other when things are really
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Doing Each Interest Know Other People Pressure Under
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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Helping Look Other People Religion Treat

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