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Abel Ferrara Biography

Abel Ferrara (born July 19, 1951) is an American filmmaker, known for the provocative and often controversial content in his films, his use of neo-noir imagery and gritty urban settings. A long-time independent filmmaker, some of his best known films include Ms .45 (1981), King of New York (1990), Bad Lieutenant (1992) and The Funeral (1996).

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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.

Talking, Stop, Movie

The world is constantly changing. You're constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark, and get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.

Changing, Mark, Spots, Take, World

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

Bronx, Grew Up, Music, Rap

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.

Direct, Fee, Fees, Hotel, Rose, Writing

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.

Helping Others, Look, Looks, People, Religion, Thing

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.

New York, Years, Southern Italy, Grandfather, States, Salerno

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.

Song, Real, Ipads, House, Message, Tell

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

Festival, Festivals, Film, Listen, Right, Want

A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.

Literature, Piece, Pieces, Process, Script, Scripts

I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.

Care, Film, Ifs, Million

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

Buddhist, Catholic, Take, Lapsed, Like

Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.

Results, Humans, Human Beings, Beings, Movies, Human

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.

Couple, Guess, People, Raise, World, Writing

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.

Thinking, Catholic, Taught, Think, Deeply

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.

Anywhere, Breathing, Car, Paying, Right, Two

A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.

Film, Films, Lifetime, Long

Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It's like Christmas Eve. "Okay, it's going to be Christmas. So what. What are you going to do? Jump off the Empire State Building?" It's all still the same. The last day of your life is still going to be a day. Then there's that thing, maybe it's not true. Who knows? Are you going to believe it? Are you going to buy it? There are a lot of other things that are important, you know. You know what they say. Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?

Believe, Important, Earth, Say, Okay

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

Editing, Away From You, Movie, Away, Finish

It's always a problem when you're working with people you don't really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting. You know, these month - or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on, and the people doing them don't even know each other, or know each other under pressure, or know each other when things are really. . . Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You're under constant crisis, making a movie.

Constant, Crisis, Done, People, Problem

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.

Imagination, Cost, Limits, Shoot, Movie

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