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
results humans human-beings
Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
long film lifetime
A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.
new-york years southern-italy
My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy. He 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, he brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
thinking actors certain
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.'
drinking differences end-of-the-world
There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
yuppies bunch mulberry
I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
character
I'm about my characters.
honor thieves film
In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
knives trying balance
I don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
laughing looks things-to-do
It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
festivals want film
Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
pushing actors hard
The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
couple writing bullshit
Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.
love life-is happens
Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?