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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
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New York City
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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 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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I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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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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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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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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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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