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 FERRARAMy job is going to be to direct the film – I’m going to do it. And that’s where my job ends.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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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 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 don’t want to live anywhere where I’m breathing two million cars’ fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.
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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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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.
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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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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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My life is proof that I don’t need you to do what I do. If there’s no one to see it, I’ll watch it.
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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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