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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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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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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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I'm about my characters.
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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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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.
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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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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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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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A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.
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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 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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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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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 care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.
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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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