In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
ABEL FERRARAIn the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
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 FERRARAI’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
ABEL FERRARAEven if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
ABEL FERRARAHe brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
ABEL FERRARAA lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.
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’m about my characters.
ABEL FERRARAI’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
ABEL FERRARAI don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
ABEL FERRARALife is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
ABEL FERRARAA script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
ABEL FERRARAAs barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
ABEL FERRARAMovies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
ABEL FERRARAMaking money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
ABEL FERRARANo one can stop me from talking about my movie.
ABEL FERRARA