Abel Ferrara

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

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

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.

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.

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