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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.
Abel Ferrara
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Abel Ferrara
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 18
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New York City
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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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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'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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 don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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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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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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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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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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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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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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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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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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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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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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