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 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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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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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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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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I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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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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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
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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.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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