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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

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Abel Ferrara
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 18
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New York City
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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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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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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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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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There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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I'm about my characters.
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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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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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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'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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I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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