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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
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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I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.
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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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There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.
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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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I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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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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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 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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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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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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