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From the book, Easy Rider, Raging Bulls,
Girlfriend Sandy Weintraub on Scorsese's well-known temper: ". . . Marty was a wall puncher. And a phone thrower. We could
not keep a phone in the house. One time I was on the phone with Taplin, angry about something. Marty grabbed
it out of my hand, yelled at Taplin, threw the phone and broke it. Then he went down the elevator, put a dime
in a pay phone on the street, and continued to yell at Taplin."
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(Also quoted from Easy Rider) Paramount honcho Don Simpson said of a young Scorsese in the 70s: "He had this rock and roll head, knew every lyric and every title. He understood that the music was really a critical aspect of the zeitgeist of the times."
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Scorsese, who was a deejay in high school, said of his early music encounters: "Music was always in my house, my mother would always have the radio on . . . Bing Crosby particularly . . . Sinatra, of course . . . and oddly enough on Saturday morning she used to like to listen to country and western which was Hank Williams at the time."
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Scorsese turned down Silence of the Lambs and told an interviewer: "I always know that if I did [blockbusters] they wouldn't have become big hits. What I mean by that is it would have been a different way. They gave me the book, Silence of the Lambs. I couldn't see myself doing the autopsy scenes, you know. I think the way I would do them would be so crude. I'd be like, ‘I've got to do it, so I've got to open this, see the inside.' I mean, I dunno. It's a blurring of what is taste, what to show, what not to show, and I'm not sure. And how could I get past that autopsy scene? I just couldn't do it."
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Sharon Stone: "When we started Casino, Marty asked me what my favorite movie was and I told him it was The Jungle Book. He said he had a print, which I couldn't believe, because prints like that are in a vault in Tennessee.you want to screen it it's a big deal—I've tried. I said, ‘If I do a really good job can I have it?' Five months later we finish the movie, which was an arduousprocess, and at the end I walked into my trailer and the film cans were stacked on my chair."
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Scorsese's second wife Julia Cameron, a best-selling writer and journalist, was once cited in Time magazine for her Watergate coverage featured in Rolling Stone magazine.
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