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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
Abel Ferrara
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Abel Ferrara
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 18
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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 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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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 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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I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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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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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'm about my characters.
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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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A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.
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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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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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 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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A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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