Abel Ferrara Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.

No one can stop me from talking about my movie.

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

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

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

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

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

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