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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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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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 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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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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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 was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.
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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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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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 don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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