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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

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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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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 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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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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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 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 was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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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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