Abel Ferrara

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. ”

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. ”