He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
ABEL FERRARAThe actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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 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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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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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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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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