Abel Ferrara Quotes

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting."

"I'm about my characters."

"As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing."

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

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

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

"I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"I live with a bunch of yuppies and models."

"No one can stop me from talking about my movie."

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

"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.'"