Quotes by Abel Ferrara

“For a long time Ive been trying to make this film and everyone told me you couldnt make a film about religion. What can I say, passion dollars baby!”

“The Passion of Christ.”

“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?”

“I was raised a Catholic and when youre raised a Catholic they dont teach you to think for yourself, ... Youre taught not to think too deeply about things.”

“It was a sad moment.”

“We dont usually win things, but if youre going to be in competition, you might as well win. Ive been laughed out of Venice with my films.”

“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.”

“This is New York seen from the point of view of an outsider. The TV journalist is so famous that hes no longer part of the world. A limo takes him from his house in Brooklyn Heights to his job in mid-Manhattan, and he doesnt 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?”

But Im 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 thats gonna stop me.