Abel Ferrara Quotes

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

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

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.'

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

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.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I'm about my characters.

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

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.

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

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.