And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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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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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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
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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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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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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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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 grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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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 have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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