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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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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 don’t know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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.
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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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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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.
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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.
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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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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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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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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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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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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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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Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it’s like, ‘Yes, let’s do it.’
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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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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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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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