Abel Ferrara Quotes

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.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I'm about my characters.

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

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.

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

I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

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.

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

I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.

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

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

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

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.'

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.

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

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.

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

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