I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
ABEL FERRARAI come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
ABEL FERRARAAlthough 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.
ABEL FERRARAI 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.
ABEL FERRARAThat’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
ABEL FERRARAWith ‘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.
ABEL FERRARAMost filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
ABEL FERRARAI’m living in a real postmodern time – every single thing sings to you to tell you it’s started, it’s stopped, you’ve got a message, you didn’t get a message.
ABEL FERRARAI don’t know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
ABEL FERRARAYou want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
ABEL FERRARAA script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
ABEL FERRARAI’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
ABEL FERRARAMy existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
ABEL FERRARAListen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
ABEL FERRARAI 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.
ABEL FERRARAThe last day of your life is still going to be a day.
ABEL FERRARAThe more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself.
ABEL FERRARA