A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
ABEL FERRARAA lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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 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 FERRARAThere’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
ABEL FERRARAWhich filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie
ABEL FERRARAI’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
ABEL FERRARAI don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
ABEL FERRARAThere are a lot of other things that are important, you know. You know what they say. Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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 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 FERRARASo what. What are you going to do? Jump off the Empire State Building?” It’s all still the same. The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
ABEL FERRARAMovies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
ABEL FERRARAAnd the people doing them don’t even know each other, or know each other under pressure, or know each other when things are really
ABEL FERRARAHe came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him
ABEL FERRARAI was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
ABEL FERRARAРow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It’s like Christmas Eve. “Okay, it’s going to be Christmas.
ABEL FERRARA