Quote

My job is going to be to direct the film - I'm going to do it. And that's where my job ends.

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
Direct
Jobs
Film
Ends
Going

More quotes by 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
There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
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
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
I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
Abel Ferrara
Image
Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
Abel Ferrara
Image
Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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
I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.
Abel Ferrara
Image
My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.
Abel Ferrara
Image
That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
Abel Ferrara
Image
I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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
Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
Abel Ferrara
Image
I'm about my characters.
Abel Ferrara
Image
A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.
Abel Ferrara
Image
I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
Abel Ferrara
Image
The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
Abel Ferrara
Image
I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
Abel Ferrara
Image
I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
Abel Ferrara