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Abel Ferrara

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Abel Ferrara
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 18
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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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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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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 have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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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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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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I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.
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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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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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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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 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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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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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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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'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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