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I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.

Abel Ferrara

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Abel Ferrara
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 18
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
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New York City
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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 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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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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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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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.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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 don't want to live anywhere where I'm breathing two million cars' fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.
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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 grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.
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A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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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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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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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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