I don’t know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
ABEL FERRARAWith ‘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.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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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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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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 life is proof that I don’t need you to do what I do. If there’s no one to see it, I’ll watch it.
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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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I’m in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song.
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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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I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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