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

Abel Ferrara

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.
ABEL FERRARA

Helping Look Other People Religion Treat
Then there’s that thing, maybe it’s not true. Who knows? Are you going to believe it? Are you going to buy it?
ABEL FERRARA

Believe Buy Going Maybe Wish
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Direct Fee Getting Hotel Paid Produce Rose Writing
I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
ABEL FERRARA

Balance Chill Equilibrium Trying Work
I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
ABEL FERRARA

Age Country Early Father Moved Problem
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
ABEL FERRARA

Doing Each Interest Know Other People Pressure Under
The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
ABEL FERRARA

Gonna Imagination Limit Only Stop Thing
I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
ABEL FERRARA

Dying Everybody Fan Movie Talking
That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
ABEL FERRARA

Away Editing Finish Make never You
The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
ABEL FERRARA

Actor Hard Push Pushing Success Work
A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
ABEL FERRARA

Enough Film Learn Lifetime Long
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Done Filmmaking Most People Problem Starting Working
Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
ABEL FERRARA

Doing Happen Life Love Right Thing
My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
ABEL FERRARA

Born Country Grandfather Live Old Outside Southern State Town Year
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Baseball Camera Creative Grew Guitar Stretch Time
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.
ABEL FERRARA

Anything Breathing Car Fume Hassled Two Zillion

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