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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
Characters
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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'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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 don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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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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Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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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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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'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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