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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
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Characters

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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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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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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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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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I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.
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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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The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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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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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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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 know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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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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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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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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 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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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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