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I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

Abel Ferrara

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Abel Ferrara
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 18
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New York City
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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy. He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him, he brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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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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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'm about my characters.
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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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 come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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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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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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