The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
ABEL FERRARAIt’s always a problem when you’re working with people you don’t really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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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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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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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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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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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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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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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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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