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
Its funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like its fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh. – Abel Ferrara
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I wont answer the door. – Abel Ferrara
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. – Abel Ferrara
In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion. – Jane Smiley