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 FERRARAMost filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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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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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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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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It’s funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it’s fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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 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 care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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