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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

Abel Ferrara

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

Human Human Being Movie Result
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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Actor Budget Certain Low Movie Ripped Thinking Wanna Working
Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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Actor Filmmaking Hand Movie Shake Starting
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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Catholic Deeply Raise Spiritual Taught Thinking
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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Commentary Concept DVD Person Strangle
As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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Barbaric Earth Face Far Miracle Ourselves
I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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never Problem
I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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Age Country Early Father Moved Problem
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?
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Happen Important Know Life Lot Other Right Thing
I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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Balance Chill Knife Neep Sharpen Throat Try Trying
He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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Culture English Food Language never Spoke Word
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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Doing Each Interest Know Other People Pressure Under
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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Buck Bullshit Couple Deal Guess Million People Poet Raise
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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Anything Direct Finance Movie Raise Sell
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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Direct Fee Getting Hotel Paid Produce Rose Writing
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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Baseball Camera Creative Grew Guitar Stretch Time

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