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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.

Abel Ferrara

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.
ABEL FERRARA

Catholic Deeply Raise Spiritual Taught Thinking
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Life Need No One Proof See Visible Watch
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Baseball Camera Creative Grew Guitar Stretch Time
I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
ABEL FERRARA

Dying Everybody Fan Movie Talking
My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
ABEL FERRARA

Born Country Grandfather Live Old Outside Southern State Town Year
The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself.
ABEL FERRARA

Helping Look Other People Religion Treat
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Addiction Alcohol Drug Eating Gambling Sex Talking
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Building Day Do Empire Going Jump Last Life State
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
ABEL FERRARA

Doing Each Interest Know Other People Pressure Under
As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
ABEL FERRARA

Barbaric Earth Face Far Miracle Ourselves
My job is going to be to direct the film – I’m going to do it. And that’s where my job ends.
ABEL FERRARA

Direct End Film Going Job
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Done Filmmaking Most People Problem Starting Working
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Anything Breathing Car Fume Hassled Two Zillion
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Buck Bullshit Couple Deal Guess Million People Poet Raise
I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
ABEL FERRARA

Come Done Film Success World
A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
ABEL FERRARA

Enough Film Learn Lifetime Long

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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