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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
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Screenwriter
New York City
New York
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Life

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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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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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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.
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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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I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.
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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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