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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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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
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With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.
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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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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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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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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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I'm about my characters.
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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 Bronx. I'm into rap music.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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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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A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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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 was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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