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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.'

Abel Ferrara

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Abel Ferrara
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 18
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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 don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
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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 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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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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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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'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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