Quotes by Abel Ferrara

About Abel Ferrara:

Abel Ferrara is an American film screenwriter and director. He is best known as an independent filmmaker of such films as The Driller Killer (1979), Ms. 45 (1981), King of New York (1990), Bad Lieutenant (1992) and The Funeral (1996).
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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

Abel Ferrara

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

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

Abel Ferrara

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

Abel Ferrara

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.

Abel Ferrara

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

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 t...

Abel Ferrara

The last day of your life is still going to be a day.

Abel Ferrara

Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?

Abel Ferrara

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

The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

Abel Ferrara

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

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.

Abel Ferrara

I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

Abel Ferrara

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

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.

Abel Ferrara

I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.

Abel Ferrara

I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.

Abel Ferrara

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

Abel Ferrara

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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Author Bio

  • NameAbel Ferrara
  • DescriptionFilm director
  • BornJuly 19, 1951
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Actor; Screenwriter