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.

Ferrara then made New Rose Hotel (1998) which reunited him with Christopher Walken. Director Martin Scorsese also named it one of his top 10 films of the 1990s. Ferrara was then hired for two Hollywood studio films: a second remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers titled Body Snatchers (1993) for Warner Bros.

Abel Ferrara (born July 19 1951) is an American film screenwriter and director. He is best known as an independent filmmaker of such films as The Driller Killer (1979) Ms.