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.’
ABEL FERRARAThat’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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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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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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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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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.
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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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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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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