Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It’s like Christmas Eve. “Okay, it’s going to be Christmas.
ABEL FERRARAWith ‘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.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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No one can stop me from talking about my 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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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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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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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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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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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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 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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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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I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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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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I grew up in the ’60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn’t that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
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