The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
ABEL FERRARAI grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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 was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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 don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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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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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 last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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There’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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