91 Quotes by Abel Ferrara

I’m in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song. I’m living in a real postmodern time – every single thing sings to you to tell you it’s started, it’s stopped, you’ve got a message, you didn’t get a message...

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.

I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.

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

I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

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.

I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.

I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.