I’m living in a real postmodern time – every single thing sings to you to tell you it’s started, it’s stopped, you’ve got a message, you didn’t get a message.
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 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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him
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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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And the people doing them don’t even know each other, or know each other under pressure, or know each other when things are really
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My existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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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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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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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