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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.

Abel Ferrara

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Abel Ferrara
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 18
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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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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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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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I'm about my characters.
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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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