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 FERRARAI’m about my characters.
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 FERRARAAs barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
ABEL FERRARAI was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
ABEL FERRARAI grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
ABEL FERRARAWhen I talk about drugs and alcohol, I’m talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I’m not talking about mental illness.
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 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 FERRARAAnd get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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 FERRARAMovies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
ABEL FERRARAThere’s a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
ABEL FERRARAIt’s funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it’s fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
ABEL FERRARAMaking money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
ABEL FERRARAHow you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
ABEL FERRARA