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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 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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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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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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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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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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 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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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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The world is constantly changing. You're constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark, and get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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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 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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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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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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