I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
ABEL FERRARA
A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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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’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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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 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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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
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don’t find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.
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I’m about my characters.
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Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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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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It’s funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it’s fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
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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 existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
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You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
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