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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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New York City
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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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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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I'm about my characters.
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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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I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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 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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.
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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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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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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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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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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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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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