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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.
Abel Ferrara
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Abel Ferrara
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 18
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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 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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