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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
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New York City
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I'm about my characters.
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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 actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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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 don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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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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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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 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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A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.
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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 know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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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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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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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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