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
long film lifetime
A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.
honor thieves film
In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
festivals want film
Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
jobs film ends
My job is going to be to direct the film - I'm going to do it. And that's where my job ends.
care film ifs
I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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.
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.
came died golden good grew happening jean late lucky movies needed saw tragic
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.