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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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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 come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.
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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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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 have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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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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A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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