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Scorsese on filming Shutter Island: "'Leo didn't like the rats, especially when he put his hand on one. That was one of the tougher days ... Or I should say weeks."
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...But Leo says the rats weren't so bad: "Those are highly sanitized, very well-trained rats that were a pleasure to work with. Often rats have an association with things like the black plague and lots of people are very skeptical about working with them, but these rats, they were just wonderful to work with. ... I would be happy to work with those rats again in the future."
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Scorsese laughs when people suggest that Leonardo DiCaprio, who has appeared in 4 of his films, has replaced Robert De Niro (8 films with Scorsese) as his muse: "No, I love both just as much," Scorsese says.
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Scorsese on filming Shutter Island: "There's a scene Leo has with Jackie [Earle Haley] and Leo says: 'I don't know where I am, man.' We did it perhaps 20 times. It was Friday night, I'm shooting all week, trying to shoot and the weather was killing us. I could see the pain in Leo's face. He just couldn't take any more. He was laughing and said: 'I hope that last take was good.' And I said: 'Nah, I'll do it again.'"
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Leonardo DiCaprio: "When you’re working with someone like Martin Scorsese, you know you’re going to have to go places emotionally that you didn’t ever foresee."
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"He saved me," Leo said of his 4-picture collaboration with director Scorsese. "I was headed down a path of being one kind of actor, and he helped me become another one. The one I wanted to be."
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Scorsese on his actors: "Sometimes, you relate to an actor in ways you can't explain. I felt it with Harvey, I felt it with Robert, I feel it now (with Leo). Over the course of years, you develop a rhythm that's hard to find in this business. But if you do find it, you don't let it go."
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Scorsese had Sam Fuller's film Shock Corridor in mind when he filmed Shutter Island, but ...: "You can't beat Shock Corridor. The super-low-budget added to the horror, the sense of tension, the sense that somebody behind the camera was unbalanced -- in a good way."
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Leo on the best advice he got as an actor: "I did a film with Robert De Niro called This Boy's Life. I was just sort of a wild child that didn't know how to conduct himself on a film set or obey any rules. Finally, De Niro said to me, 'Look, I know this may suck right now, but pain is temporary, film is forever. Whatever you do right now is burned into celluloid for all time and for thousands of years to come.' That mantra kind of stuck with me, and no matter how hard it was doing a film, I never forgot it. No matter what happens, your work speaks for itself in the end."
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While at New York University in the 1960s, one of Scorsese's short films won a Producers’ Guild award. While on his first trip to Hollywood as a young director, he met Cary Grant at the awards dinner. Grant asked him his name and when Scorsese told him, the famous actor said: "You may have to change that."
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On whether his 10-year-old daughter Francesca will follow in his filmmaking footsteps, Scorsese says: "She and her friends are writing scripts and filming them, though I’m not sure exactly what they are. I’ve seen one or two but they have to get into the editing of them. I don’t say they’re going to be filmmakers, but it’s a way of expression for them. It’s what young people are doing and it’s the way it is now."
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