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

- Abel Ferrara

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

- Abel Ferrara

I don't care if I get $50m to do a film.

- Abel Ferrara

I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.

- Abel Ferrara

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.

- Abel Ferrara

I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

- Abel Ferrara

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

- Abel Ferrara

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

- Abel Ferrara

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

- Abel Ferrara

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

- Abel Ferrara

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.

- Abel Ferrara

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.

- Abel Ferrara

No one can stop me from talking about my movie.

- Abel Ferrara

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

- Abel Ferrara

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

- Abel Ferrara

There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.

- Abel Ferrara

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.

- Abel Ferrara

The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.

- Abel Ferrara

I'm about my characters.

- Abel Ferrara

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.

- Abel Ferrara