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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
Films
Learn
Film
Enough
Long
Make
Lifetime

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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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 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 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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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 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 was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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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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Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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 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'm about my characters.
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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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