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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
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Film Producer
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New York City
New York
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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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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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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 was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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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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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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 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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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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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I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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