Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
ABEL FERRARAEven if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
ABEL FERRARAThat’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
ABEL FERRARABut I’m never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is.
ABEL FERRARAThe last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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 FERRARAMaking money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
ABEL FERRARAAnd get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
ABEL FERRARAI’m about my characters.
ABEL FERRARAI’m living in a real postmodern time – every single thing sings to you to tell you it’s started, it’s stopped, you’ve got a message, you didn’t get a message.
ABEL FERRARAI was raised a Catholic and when you’re raised a Catholic they don’t teach you to think for yourself. You’re taught not to think too deeply about things.
ABEL FERRARAI was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
ABEL FERRARAMy existence is about making movies, so I’ve just got to rock and roll with the punches.
ABEL FERRARAYou know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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 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 FERRARAThe more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself.
ABEL FERRARA