Abel Ferrara Quotes
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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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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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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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.
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I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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I'm about my characters.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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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 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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I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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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.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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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.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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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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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.
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A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.