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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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Film Producer
Screenwriter
New York City
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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 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'm about my characters.
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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 was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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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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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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I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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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'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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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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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 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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