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
two breathing car
I 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.
writing rose fees
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.
lasts life-is last-day
The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
i-dont-need-you needs watches
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.
song real ipads
I'm in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song. I'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...
miracle faces earth
As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
helping-others people looks
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.
thinking catholic taught
I 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.
sex talking gambling
When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I'm talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I'm not talking about mental illness.
editing away-from-you
That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
hands starting filmmaking
Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting
done world film
I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
brooklyn car famous guys heights house job journalist longer outside point rock seen takes tv until view wondered york
This is New York seen from the point of view of an outsider. The TV journalist is so famous that he's no longer part of the world. A limo takes him from his house in Brooklyn Heights to his job in mid-Manhattan, and he doesn't see anything outside the car until a rock smashes his window. I wondered about famous journalists: Who these guys are? What do they really feel and how much can they show their feelings?
talking
No one can stop me from talking about my movie.