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A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.

Abel Ferrara

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Abel Ferrara
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 18
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
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New York City
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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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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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 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 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'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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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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The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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