Abel Ferrara Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.'”

“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.”

“Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.”

“The last day of your life is still going to be a day.”

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