Abel Ferrara Quotes
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A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.
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I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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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.
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But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
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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 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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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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I don't care if I get $50m to do a film.
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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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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.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.