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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.

Abel Ferrara

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Abel Ferrara
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 18
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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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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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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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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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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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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'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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