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
civilization fan god talk talking western
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.
fee knew paid
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.
hands starting filmmaking
Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting
editing away-from-you
That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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.
results humans human-beings
Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
yuppies bunch mulberry
I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
buddhist catholic
I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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.