The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
ABEL FERRARAThe actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
ABEL FERRARAI direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.
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 FERRARAListen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
ABEL FERRARAMovies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
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 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 live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
ABEL FERRARAHe brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
ABEL FERRARAI come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
ABEL FERRARAI’m in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song.
ABEL FERRARAMulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don’t find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
ABEL FERRARAA script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
ABEL FERRARAI don’t know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
ABEL FERRARAI’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
ABEL FERRARAI’m about my characters.
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