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Abel Ferrara
American
Director
Born:
Jul 19
,
1951
About
Film
Life
Like
Think
You
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
Abel Ferrara
Festival
Listen
Anybody
Want
Show
Who
Film
Film Festival
Right
My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
Abel Ferrara
Life
You
My Life
See
Proof
No-One
Watch
Need
I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
Abel Ferrara
Big
Everybody
About
Make
Talking
Big Fan
Where
Movie
Fan
Dying
Then
Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
Abel Ferrara
Life
You
Other
Doing
Happens
Right
Things
That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
Abel Ferrara
You
Editing
About
Finish
Take
Never
Making
Just
Movie
Away
Thing
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
Rose
Direct
Write
Fee
Knew
Hotel
New
Get
Getting
Going
Produce
Paid
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.
Abel Ferrara
You
Punches
Telephones
About
Make
Rock
Got
Rock And Roll
Making
Making Movies
Existence
Roll
Just
Want
Movies
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.
Abel Ferrara
You
Heart
Experience
Live
Those
Find
Beating
Italian-American
Bunch
Models
Gangsters
Now
Street
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.
Abel Ferrara
You
Bible
Own
Think
Pushed
Come
Read
Where
Your
Raised
I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
Abel Ferrara
Live
Bunch
Models
No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
Abel Ferrara
Me
About
No-One
Talking
Stop
Movie
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
Time
Creative
Guitar
Big
Bat
Go
Camera
Up
Grew
Which
Baseball
Film
Stretch
I'm about my characters.
Abel Ferrara
Characters
About
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.'
Abel Ferrara
Think
Others
Ripped
Like
Off
Yes
Get
Being
Wanna
Movie
Low-Budget
Certain
Working
Paid
Actor
It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.
Abel Ferrara
God
You
Problem
Big
Think
Everyone
About
Only
Civilization
Know
Talk
Forbid
Talking
Big Fan
Western
Western Civilization
Big Problem
Die
Going
Oh
Oh God
The Only Thing
Fan
Dying
Mean
Them
Certain
Right
Thing
Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
Abel Ferrara
About
Shaking
Most
Hands
Just
Starting
Filmmaking
The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.
Abel Ferrara
Virginia
Secret
Something
Like
Make
Causes
Stops
Happen
Happening
Tech
Film
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.
Abel Ferrara
Funny
Somebody
Laugh
Something
Like
Look
Make
Loose
Get
Improvised
The Hardest Thing
Fast
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
Abel Ferrara
Work
Love
Me
Pushing
Hard
Actor
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