I 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 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 FERRARAYou want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.
ABEL FERRARAMost filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
ABEL FERRARAHe brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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 FERRARAMy grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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 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 FERRARAThat’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
ABEL FERRARAAnd get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
ABEL FERRARAThe last day of your life is still going to be a day.
ABEL FERRARAListen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
ABEL FERRARAI’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
ABEL FERRARAI’m about my characters.
ABEL FERRARAA script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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.
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