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I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.

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
Grew
Music
Bronx
Rap

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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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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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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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A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.
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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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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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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 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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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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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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I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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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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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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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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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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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'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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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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