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.
ABEL FERRARAI 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.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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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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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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So what. What are you going to do? Jump off the Empire State Building?” It’s all still the same. The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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 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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My job is going to be to direct the film – I’m going to do it. And that’s where my job ends.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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