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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
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Abel Ferrara
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 18
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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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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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I don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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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 existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.
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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy. 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, he brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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The world is constantly changing. You're constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark, 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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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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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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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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There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - 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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A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.
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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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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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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 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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