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A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.

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
Lifetime
Films
Learn
Film
Enough
Long
Make

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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.
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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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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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 don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.
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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 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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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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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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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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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'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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