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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
Bronx
Rap
Grew
Music

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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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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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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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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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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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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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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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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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 was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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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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There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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