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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.

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
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Humans
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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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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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A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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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 '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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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 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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The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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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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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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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 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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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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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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