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I'm about my characters.

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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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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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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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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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 live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.
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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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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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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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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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I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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