Abel Ferrara famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#Miracle #Earth #Faces
I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Done #World #Film
Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting
-- Abel Ferrara

#Hands #Starting #Filmmaking
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.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Psychedelic #Watches #Needs
That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Editing #Away From You
I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Care #Film #Mr Right
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

#Thinking #Catholic #Taught
The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Helping Others #People #Looks
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Doors #Answers #Making Money
Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
-- Abel Ferrara

#Love #Life Is
Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Want #Festivals #Film
I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Yuppies #Bunch #Models
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

#Thinking #Actors #Lows
A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Pieces #Literature #Scripts
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.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Writing #Rose #Fees
The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Lasts #Life Is #Last Day
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

#Baseball #Guitar #Creative
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.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Rocks #Rock And Roll #Want
In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Honor #Thieves #Film
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.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Laughing #Looks #Hardest
No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Talking
I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Problem
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.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Imagination #Cost #Limits
The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Actors #Pushing
I'm about my characters.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Character
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

#Heart #Italian #Yuppies
I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Talking #Dying #Fans
I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Buddhist #Catholic
I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Dvds #Persons
I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Country #Father #Age

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