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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.

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
Movies
Existence
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Make
Punches
Telephones
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Rocks

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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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 don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.
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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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The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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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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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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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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 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 come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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