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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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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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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 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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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 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 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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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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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