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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
Existence
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Punches
Telephones
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Movies

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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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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 don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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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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