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 don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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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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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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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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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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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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I’m about my characters.
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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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