Abel Ferrara
Abel Ferrara
Abel Ferrarais an American film screenwriter and director and occasionally an actor. He is best known as an independent filmmaker of such films as The Driller Killer, Ms. 45, King of New York, Bad Lieutenantand The Funeral...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth19 July 1951
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
couple writing bullshit
Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.
love life-is happens
Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
buddhist catholic
I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
dvds persons knows
I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
imagination limits cost
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.
problem
I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
talking
No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
baseball guitar creative
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.
country father age
I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
finance raises direct
I direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things.
doors answers making-money
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
rock-and-roll rocks want
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.
literature scripts pieces
A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.
jobs film ends
My job is going to be to direct the film - I'm going to do it. And that's where my job ends.