More - Abel Ferrara Quotes

For a long time I've been trying to make this film and everyone told me you couldn't make a film about religion. What can I say, passion dollars baby!

Abel Ferrara

 

The Passion of Christ.

Abel Ferrara

 Passion

Thank God, Mel had the gold in his pocket. He is the big winner and he deserves it and I think that we got his spill-over ... 'Passion dollars' baby, you know what I mean?

Abel Ferrara

 God

I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself, ... You're taught not to think too deeply about things.

Abel Ferrara

 Catholic

It was a sad moment.

Abel Ferrara

 

We don't usually win things, but if you're going to be in competition, you might as well win. I've been laughed out of Venice with my films.

Abel Ferrara

 Competition

I grew up in the late '50s. I came from a real place and needed to see the movies that were around then. We went to those movies young. We were lucky - between '67 and '73 was pretty much a golden age. You saw everything you could want to see; you got an education. Pasolini and Hitchcock, Godard. It was all happening at once; you saw the best, like Jean Vigo, who died so young. Tragic - such a good filmmaker.

Abel Ferrara

 Movie

This is New York seen from the point of view of an outsider. The TV journalist is so famous that he's no longer part of the world. A limo takes him from his house in Brooklyn Heights to his job in mid-Manhattan, and he doesn't see anything outside the car until a rock smashes his window. I wondered about famous journalists: Who these guys are? What do they really feel and how much can they show their feelings?

Abel Ferrara