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"Let's face it, I'm an old guy," Scorsese told an interviewer. "I've been making films for three decades. But a lot of the young actors keep telling their agents that they'd love to work with me. And that makes me feel really good. But then I've noticed that there are some young actors who'd rather work with Adam Sandler than with me."
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Scorsese says he maintains a life-long habit of watching films (though not his own) over and over. "I'll watch a Michael Powell film repeatedly, like a piece of music. Like you put on Beethoven —or Mozart. You don't say,‘I've heard the Fifth Symphony, I'm not going to listen to it again.'"
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About one of his directing idols, Scorsese commented: "People say about Sam Fuller, ‘well, listen to his dialogue. It's terrible.' But it's about the visuals and the way he's expressing himself with that move. You get an emotional reaction. Why was that effective? He moved that way. An actor goes flying out of the frame here and the energy of that actor is still felt and you're flying into the wall."
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Asked by Esquire Magazine in its March 2000 issue to pick "The Next Scorsese," Scorsese picked director Wes Anderson (Bottle Rocket; Rushmore).
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Backstage at the 1980 Academy Awards show when Scorsese was nominated for Raging Bull, he didn't understand why the security was so tight. "Everybody knew why besides me. Robert Redford told me that a connection with Taxi Driver had been made to the shooting of President Reagan. I never thought in a million years there was a connection with the film. It turned out even my limo driver was FBI."
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Studio lawyers must have felt free to pester Scorsese and screenwriter Nick Pileggi about script changes they wanted to see in Casino. Scorsese later commented: "[The lawyers] objected to the Voice Over which states that a guy who was tortured had an ‘ice pick put into his balls' and he still didn't talk. The lawyers think this is inaccurate, because if you put an ice pick in somebody's balls, he definitely talks. One lawyer even added, ‘Gee, Pileggi, I thought you knew this.'"
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Scorsese on his family and Italian food: "They were
Sicilians, they felt they had to eat every part of the animal. I remember they would serve the head of a lamb, you
know, with the eyes and everything. Me and my brother Frank, we were Americans. We figured we didn't
have to eat that stuff. I'd say, ‘Hey, it's looking at me. I don't want to eat it."
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Writer Gavin Smith interviewed Scorsese in 1990 and asked him about the movie Married to the Mob. Scorsese: "I like Jonathan Demme 's movies, but well, it's a satire—it's just too many plastic seat covers. And yet, if you go to my mother's apartment, you'll see plastic seat covers. So where's the line of the truth? I don't know."
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He continues about Married to the Mob: "When Demme starts with ‘Mambo Italiano,' I'm already cringing because I'm Italian-American, and certain songs we'd like to forget! So I told Jonathan he had some nerve using that—I told him only Italians could use ‘Mambo Italiano' and get away with it. There might be some knocks at his door."
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The music in Bringing Out the Dead is almost neutral at times. Scorsese: "The film is scored mainly to an old song by Van Morrison called ‘T.B. Sheets.' It's 9 minutes long, and I wanted to use it all the way back in Taxi Driverin 1976. But it wasn't in that movie because Travis Bickle never listened to the radio.
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The song "Between Trains" was written by Robbie Robertson as a tribute to "Cowboy" Dan Johnson, an assistant to Scorsese who died of meningitis. Robertson was impressed by Johnson and so shocked by his sudden death that he was moved to write of one his best songs.
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