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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
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Screenwriter
New York City
New York
Make
Raise
Things
Sell
Sells
Raises
Direct
Movies
Money
Anything
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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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I'm about my characters.
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The world is constantly changing. You're constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark, and get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.
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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 live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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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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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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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 don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.
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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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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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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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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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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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