Quote

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

Abel Ferrara

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Abel Ferrara
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 18
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Screenwriter
New York City
New York
Hands
Shaking
Starting
Movie
Actors

More quotes by Abel Ferrara

Image
As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
Abel Ferrara
Image
I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
Abel Ferrara
Image
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.
Abel Ferrara
Image
But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
Abel Ferrara
Image
I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
Abel Ferrara
Image
Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
Abel Ferrara
Image
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.
Abel Ferrara
Image
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
Image
In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
Abel Ferrara
Image
I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
Abel Ferrara
Image
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
Image
I direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things.
Abel Ferrara
Image
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
Image
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
Abel Ferrara
Image
I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
Abel Ferrara
Image
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.
Abel Ferrara
Image
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.
Abel Ferrara
Image
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.
Abel Ferrara
Image
Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
Abel Ferrara
Image
That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
Abel Ferrara