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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
Film
Come
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Success

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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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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 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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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'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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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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There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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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I'm about my characters.
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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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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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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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