Quotes by 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

Wisdom

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

— Abel Ferrara

Wisdom

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

— Abel Ferrara

Wisdom

I'm about my characters.

— Abel Ferrara

Wisdom

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

— Abel Ferrara

Life

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

— Abel Ferrara

Wisdom

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.

— Abel Ferrara

Wisdom

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.

— Abel Ferrara

Wisdom

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

Love

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

Wisdom

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

— Abel Ferrara

Wisdom

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

— Abel Ferrara

Wisdom

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

— Abel Ferrara

Wisdom

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

— Abel Ferrara

Life

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

Success

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

— Abel Ferrara

Success

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

— Abel Ferrara

Wisdom

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

— Abel Ferrara

Wisdom

I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.

— Abel Ferrara

Wisdom

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

— Abel Ferrara

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

— Abel Ferrara

Wisdom

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

— Abel Ferrara

Wisdom

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

— Abel Ferrara

Wisdom