A biography for Abel Ferrarahasn’t been written yet.
“I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.”
“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.”
“I don't care if I get $50m to do a film.”
“I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.”
“I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.”
“Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.”
“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 don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.”
“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.”
“Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?”
“There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.”
“In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.”
“I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The last day of your life is still going to be a day.”
“As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.”