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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

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
Success
Film
Come
Done
World

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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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 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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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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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 care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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 was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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I'm about my characters.
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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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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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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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A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.
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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 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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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.
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