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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
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Telephones
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Existence

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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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I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.
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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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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.
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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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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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The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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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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