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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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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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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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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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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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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 actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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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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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy. He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him, he brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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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 care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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 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 don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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