Abel Ferrara
Abel Ferrara
Abel Ferrarais an American film screenwriter and director and occasionally an actor. He is best known as an independent filmmaker of such films as The Driller Killer, Ms. 45, King of New York, Bad Lieutenantand The Funeral...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth19 July 1951
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
competition laughed might venice win
We don't usually win things, but if you're going to be in competition, you might as well win. I've been laughed out of Venice with my films.
deserves god gold thank winner
Thank God, Mel had the gold in his pocket. He is the big winner and he deserves it and I think that we got his spill-over ... 'Passion dollars' baby, you know what I mean?
cut
There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
I don't care if I get $50m to do a film.
I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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I grew up in the late '50s. I came from a real place and needed to see the movies that were around then. We went to those movies young. We were lucky - between '67 and '73 was pretty much a golden age. You saw everything you could want to see; you got an education. Pasolini and Hitchcock, Godard. It was all happening at once; you saw the best, like Jean Vigo, who died so young. Tragic - such a good filmmaker.
bible pushed raised
Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.
civilization fan god talk talking western
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.
causes stops tech
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.
certain energy exists fact miss people
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.
dollars passion time trying
For a long time I've been trying to make this film and everyone told me you couldn't make a film about religion. What can I say, passion dollars baby!
fee knew paid
With '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.
world spots mark
The world is constantly changing. You're constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark, and get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
rap bronx grew
I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.