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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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But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
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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 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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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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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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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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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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 live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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The world is constantly changing. You're constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark, and get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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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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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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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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