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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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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.
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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 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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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.'
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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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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 a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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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 have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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