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
literature scripts pieces
A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.
yuppies bunch mulberry
I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
two breathing car
I don't want to live anywhere where I'm breathing two million cars' fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.
heart italian yuppies
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.
thinking actors certain
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.'
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.
buddhist catholic
I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
doors answers making-money
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
country father age
I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
festivals want film
Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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.
pushing actors hard
The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
drinking differences end-of-the-world
There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
sex talking gambling
When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I'm talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I'm not talking about mental illness.