Certain 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 Ferrara Read Quote
As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far. Abel Ferrara Read Quote
It’s only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it’s the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone’s going to die, so what’s the big problem? ‘Oh, God. Don’t talk about it. Don’t think about it.’ I mean, I’m one of them. I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. Abel Ferrara Read Quote
The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing. Abel Ferrara Read Quote
The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening. Abel Ferrara Read Quote
As an old-time New Yorker, it’s not that I miss the ’70s and ’80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing. Abel Ferrara Read Quote
My 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 Ferrara Read Quote
Mulberry 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 Ferrara Read Quote
