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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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I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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I'm about my characters.
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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.
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I'm in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song. I'm living in a real postmodern time - every single thing sings to you to tell you it's started, it's stopped, you've got a message, you didn't get a message.
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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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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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