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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.

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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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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 don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.
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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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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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