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Abel Ferrara Wiki Biography

Born in the Bronx, Ferrara started making amateur films on Super 8 in his teens before making his debut with violent exploitation films such as ‘Driller Killer’ and ‘Ms.45’. Good reviews for the latter helped create his cult reputation, leading to larger budgets, studio funding and ‘name’ actors (Christopher Walken, Harvey Keitel), but he still … IMDB Wikipedia $10 million 1951 1951-7-19 Abel Ferrara Abel Ferrara Net Worth Bad Lieutenant (1992) Body Snatchers (1993) Cancer Director July 19 King of New York (1990) Nancy Ferrara New York Soundtrack The Bronx The Funeral (1996) United States Writer

Abel Ferrara Quick Info

Abel Ferrara Trademarks

1. Recurring theme of faith and redemption
2. His films often end with the death of the main character.
3. Many of his protagonists are portrayed as inherently decent men who have been caught up in violence.
4. Long running camera shots
5. Often collaborates with screenwriter Nicholas St.John
6. Uses very little, if any, music in his films
7. Frequent references to philosophical and religious concepts
8. Frequently sets his films in New York City
9. His characters are often deeply flawed individuals trying to survive in a bleak world.
10. Frequent use of religious imagery
11. Often features characters caught in self-destructive patterns (King of New York, Bad Lieutenant)
12. Frequently casts Matthew Modine, Christopher Walken, Forest Whitaker, Dennis Hopper, Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, David Caruso, Annabella Sciorra, Victor Argo, Paul Calderon, Asia Argento, Gretchen Mol, Giancarlo Esposito, Zoë Lund and Paul Hipp.

Abel Ferrara Quotes

• 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 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.
• The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.
• With ‘New Rose Hotel,’ I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that’s all I was going to get.
• There’s no such thing as a non-final cut director.
• 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.
• 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.
• It’s only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it’s the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone’s going to die, so what’s the big problem? ‘Oh, God. Don’t talk about it. Don’t think about it.’ I mean, I’m one of them. I’m not a big fan of talking about dying.
• 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 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.
• I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
• I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
• I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
• I don’t know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
• I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.
• 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.
• Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
• Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
• 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.
• I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.
• Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it’s like, ‘Yes, let’s do it.’
• 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.
• The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
• I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
• No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
• A script is not a piece of literature it’s a process.
• That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
• I’m about my characters.
• Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
• As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

Abel Ferrara Important Facts

• He visited Argentina for to promote his film Mary (2005) in Mar del Plata International Film Festival. [March 2006]
• Is of Irish and Italian descent.
• Is a close friend of fellow director Michael Mann. Ferrara directed episodes for Mann’s TV shows Miami Vice (1984) and Crime Story (1986). Ferrara also makes private screenings of his films to Mann who, in exchange, gives him tips and advices on editing.
• Visited Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia, 8/2006)
• Went to high school with Nicholas St. John, who has written many of his films.
• Has two adopted daughters.
• Grew up in Peekskill, New York.

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