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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
Abel Ferrara
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Abel Ferrara
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 18
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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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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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I'm about my characters.
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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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