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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

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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Shaking

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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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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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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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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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I'm about my characters.
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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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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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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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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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I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I'm talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I'm not talking about mental illness.
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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 was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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