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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.

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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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I'm about my characters.
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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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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 come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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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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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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 grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.
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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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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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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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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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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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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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