Abel Ferrara

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

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

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.'

No one can stop me from talking about my movie.

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

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.

My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.

Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?

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

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.

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.