91 Quotes by Abel Ferrara

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.

A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.

I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.

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

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

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.

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.’

I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.