American - Director | July 19, 1951 -
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.
Abel Ferrara
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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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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 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 $50m to do a film.
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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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Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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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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I'm about my characters.
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