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 FERRARAAlthough 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.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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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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There are a lot of other things that are important, you know. You know what they say. Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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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 about my characters.
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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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