I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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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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Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It’s like Christmas Eve. “Okay, it’s going to be Christmas.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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My job is going to be to direct the film – I’m going to do it. And that’s where my job ends.
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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 grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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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 was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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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Then there’s that thing, maybe it’s not true. Who knows? Are you going to believe it? Are you going to buy it?
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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