91 Quotes by Abel Ferrara

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

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.

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting

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.

As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.

A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.