Abel Ferrara Quotes

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

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

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

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.

I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

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.

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.

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.

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

I direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things.

I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.

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

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.

I don't want to live anywhere where I'm breathing two million cars' fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.

I'm about my characters.

Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.

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

I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

No one can stop me from talking about my movie.

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.'

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

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

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

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

My job is going to be to direct the film - I'm going to do it. And that's where my job ends.

A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.

I don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.

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.

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