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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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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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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.
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.
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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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I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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I'm about my characters.
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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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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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I'm in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song. I'm living in a real postmodern time - every single thing sings to you to tell you it's started, it's stopped, you've got a message, you didn't get a message.
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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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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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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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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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I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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