Abel Ferrara

I'm about my characters.

— Abel Ferrara

I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

— Abel Ferrara

I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.

— Abel Ferrara

No one can stop me from talking about my movie.

— Abel Ferrara

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

— Abel Ferrara

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

— Abel Ferrara

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

— Abel Ferrara

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

— Abel Ferrara

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

— Abel Ferrara

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

— Abel Ferrara

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

— Abel Ferrara

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

— Abel Ferrara

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

— Abel Ferrara

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

— Abel Ferrara

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

— Abel Ferrara

When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I'm talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I'm not talking about…

— Abel Ferrara

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to…

— Abel Ferrara

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…

— Abel Ferrara

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…

— Abel Ferrara

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

— Abel Ferrara

With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all…

— Abel Ferrara

As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there…

— Abel Ferrara

Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes,…

— Abel Ferrara

I'm in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings…

— Abel Ferrara

Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - although I guess being…

— Abel Ferrara

The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you…

— Abel Ferrara

My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy. He came…

— Abel Ferrara

The world is constantly changing. You're constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark, and get off…

— Abel Ferrara

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…

— Abel Ferrara

Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It's like Christmas Eve. "Okay, it's going to be…

— Abel Ferrara

It's always a problem when you're working with people you don't really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.…

— Abel Ferrara

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting

— Abel Ferrara

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

— Abel Ferrara

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

— Abel Ferrara

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

— Abel Ferrara

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

— Abel Ferrara

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

— Abel Ferrara

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

— Abel Ferrara

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

— Abel Ferrara

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

— Abel Ferrara