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
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This is New York seen from the point of view of an outsider. The TV journalist is so famous that he's no longer part of the world. A limo takes him from his house in Brooklyn Heights to his job in mid-Manhattan, and he doesn't see anything outside the car until a rock smashes his window. I wondered about famous journalists: Who these guys are? What do they really feel and how much can they show their feelings?
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Thank God, Mel had the gold in his pocket. He is the big winner and he deserves it and I think that we got his spill-over ... 'Passion dollars' baby, you know what I mean?
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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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We don't usually win things, but if you're going to be in competition, you might as well win. I've been laughed out of Venice with my films.
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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.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting
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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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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.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.
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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.
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Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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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.