Abel Ferrara Quotes

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

Change, Money, Door

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

Process, Literature, Piece

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

Live, Nothing, Energy

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

Off, Far, Earth

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

Life, Point, Stop

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

Working, Others, Off

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

Success, Done, Film

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

Care, Film, Million

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

I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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

Person, Concept, Strangle

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

Time, Baseball, Guitar

I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
Abel Ferrara

Live, Models, Bunch

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

Age, Father, Country

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

Yourself, Teach, Taught

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

Point, Catholic, Buddhist

I'm about my characters.
Abel Ferrara

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

Big, Dying, Everybody

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

Business, Honor, Film

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

Funny, Laugh, Somebody

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.
Abel Ferrara

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

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

Show, Film, Listen

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
Abel Ferrara

Hands, Filmmaking, Starting

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

Experience, Live, Heart

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: July 19, 1951

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