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Dunne's character Paul Hackett laments in After Hours: "All I wanted
to do was go out with a girl and have a nice time. Do I have to die for it?"|
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Dunne's character Paul Hackett laments in After Hours: "All I wanted
to do was go out with a girl and have a nice time. Do I have to die for it?"
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Griffin Dunne on first reading the script for After Hours: "I actually couldn't sit down and read it. I had to place the script on the floor and turn the pages with my big toe so I could walk around going, ‘Oh, oh my god.' You know it was really a fully realized script when we got it. There was very little revision to do."
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Scorsese realized that his chronicle of Griffith's nightmarish adventures in After Hours was a surrealistic "reaction against my year and a half in Hollywood trying to get The Last Temptation of Christ made." One not-too-subtle projection of Scorsese's fears of being castrated by the blockbuster mentality: the scene of Griffith Dunne studying graffiti showing a man's penis about to be swallowed by the shark from Jaws.
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Ellen Burstyn, who won an Academy Award for her performance as Alice in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, on Scorsese style of directing: "Marty has a way of allowing the actors to contribute their own content. The scene in the car with Tommy repeating the joke over and over got in because Marty rode out to the set on the bus with [child actor] Alfred Lutter. Alfred told him that story. ‘Shoot the dog, shoot the dog . . .' Marty never got the story but Alfred kept telling it over and over. Marty couldn't shut the kid up, so that went right into the movie."
Film critic Woody Hockswender on Scorsese's 26-minute film Made in Milan, the tribute to the designer Armani: "Employing Scorsese to direct such flimsy material is as absurd and wasteful as hiring George Cukor to film your wedding."
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For The Last Temptation of Christ, Aidan Quinnand Sting were initially set to play Jesus Christ and Pontius Pilate respectively. The roles eventually went to Willem Dafoe and David Bowie.
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Scorsese on the concessions he offered in order to make Last Temptation in 1983: "We cut the shooting days down to fifty-five days, and the budget down to $6 million, including the $4 million we had already spent. No salary for me. And I told Jeff Katzenberg I would do Flashdance II if he wanted." Regardless, Paramount cancelled the picture days later.
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While watching the news in 1983 about a notorious gang rape of a young woman in a New Bedford, Massachusetts, bar, studio executive Dawn Steel questioned her boyfriend Martin Scorsese why bystanders, who had cheered on the rape, weren't being prosecuted. Scorsese challenged her, "Make a movie about it." The result was The Accused for which another Scorsese protégé, Jody Foster, won an Academy Award for Best Actress.
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As Scorsese once told the Christian Science Monitor: "Musicians are outlaws. They're a subculture just like the guys in Mean Streets. It doesn't matter if they're jazz musicians of the Forties, or rock musicians of today. They have their own language and life-style. I feel at home with that."
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Songwriter/musician Robbie Robertson on former roommate Scorsese: "I've lived with musicians all my life. I've been around loud music all my life. But Marty was the only person I ever had to say to, ‘would you please turn down the music a little bit?' I couldn't even go to the bathroom—he had speakers in the bathroom."
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