Abel Ferrara Quotes

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.
A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.
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.
As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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.
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.'
I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
I don't care if I get $50m to do a film.
I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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.
I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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.
In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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.
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 going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.
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