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 FERRARAThen there’s that thing, maybe it’s not true. Who knows? Are you going to believe it? Are you going to buy it?
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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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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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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 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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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.
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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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 trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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