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

Abel Ferrara

I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

Abel Ferrara

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

Abel Ferrara

I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.

Abel Ferrara

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

I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

Abel Ferrara

No one can stop me from talking about my movie.

Abel Ferrara

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

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

Abel Ferrara

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

Abel Ferrara

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

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.

Abel Ferrara

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

Abel Ferrara

A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.

Abel Ferrara

There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.

Abel Ferrara

Author Bio

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