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 FERRARAI grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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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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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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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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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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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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I was raised a Catholic and when you’re raised a Catholic they don’t teach you to think for yourself. You’re taught not to think too deeply about things.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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