I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
ABEL FERRARAI don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
ABEL FERRARAIt’s always a problem when you’re working with people you don’t really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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 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 FERRARAEven if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
ABEL FERRARAThere’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
ABEL FERRARAA script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
ABEL FERRARAMaking money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
ABEL FERRARAI come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
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 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 FERRARAI live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
ABEL FERRARAMy life is proof that I don’t need you to do what I do. If there’s no one to see it, I’ll watch it.
ABEL FERRARACertain 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.’
ABEL FERRARAI 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.
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 FERRARA