Abel Ferrara on the advice he received from many people not to release "King of New York" (1990):
"Everyone kept saying, “People are gonna tear up the theater, there will be riots in Los Angeles if we play it there, bah-bah-bah.” We weren’t trying to get on the 'New Jack City' (1991) bandwagon — there was no bandwagon yet. We just knew we had a good story. It eventually found an audience."
(Abel Ferrara's interview with David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2019)