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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
Actor
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Film Director
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New York City
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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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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 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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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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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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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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'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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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 actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
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