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"One of my guiding stars," is how Scorsese described filmmaker Elia Kazan : "[Kazan] pointed the way to a new kind of movie-making -- physically expressive, psychologically acute, brutally honest, and emotionally overwhelming."
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Actor Paul Sorvino, who played gang boss Paulie Cicero, said he desperately wanted the role in Goodfellas. "I didn't think I had that kind of brutality," he said as her recalled his first meeting director Martin Scorsese. "I even went with a pinky ring and a black overcoat, I swear to God. I never wore a pinkie ring in my life before or since but I wanted the role so bad!"
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Billy Crystal attended a film school at New York Film University where one of his teachers was the celebrated film noir movie maestro Martin Scorsese.
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For cinematography for Cape Fear, Scorsese chose Freddie Francis, BSC. "The main thing was Freddie's understanding of the concept of the Gothic atmosphere," Scorsese explained. "He knows the atmosphere that I want for this picture. He knows the lighting — whatever it takes to get that incredible, Gothic thriller look. He understands the obligatory scene of a young maiden with a candle walking down a long hall towards a door. 'Don't go in that door!' you yell, and she goes in! Every time she goes in! So I say to him, ‘This has to look like The Hall,' and he understands that."
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At 27, Isabella Rossellini became Scorsese's third wife: "The mentality [then] was you married an interesting man, because an interesting man would provide you with an interesting life. Marty, for sure, is the perfect husband for that. He's an absolute genius. Fantastic mind. Great sense of humor, great sense of adventure. You could live just as Marty's wife and have a fantastic life. But, I was too naive and old-fashioned for Marty as a wife. I wasn't used to the roughness of American lifestyle. I wasn't used to street life, to rock 'n' roll. I was the naive girl from Europe, so it couldn't have lasted."
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Cameron Diaz on Scorsese while filming Gangs: "Marty's an encyclopedia of film history, and he's talking constantly. And you have to listen because that's his direction. So I just said to him, ‘Look, when you make a reference to some obscure film and you ask if I know it, just assume I don't.'
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Tom Hanks on a rewarding cinematic experience: "To me, it's like off the scale. One of the best endings for any movie I've ever seen is at the true end of Taxi Driver where Travis Bickle is just kind of hanging out driving a cab after it's all done. I remember having rabid discussions about it in college: 'How could it end in this glorious violence?' And I said, 'It didn't end like that. The end of the movie was the guy in the third act of his existence.' That was an incredibly satisfying experience, but it's a huge, huge gamble."
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In the November 2004 issue of Premiere Magazine's ranking of "The 50 Most Disturbing Moments in Movie History", the editors ranked Martin Scorsese losing the 1991 Best Director Oscar (for Goodfellas) to Kevin Costner who directed Dances with Wolves.
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Director George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead) grew up
in the Bronx, New York, and was a film buff in the pre-VCR era. When he fell
in love with Michael Powell's fantasy, Tales of Hoffman, he knew he
wanted to make movies. But if he wanted to see his favorite, he had to go
to a distribution house, rent the reels of a 16mm print, and show it on a
projector in his house. "There were just a few of us around, then, who'd
do that," Romero says. "Martin Scorsese was the guy who, if I went
to Janus Films and Tales of Hoffman was checked out, I knew he had
it. And if he went to rent it and it was out, he knew I had it."
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Lost star Naveen Andrews wants desperately to work with Martin Scorsese: “I’d love to work with him. I think he’s the best director in America today,” Andrews told /Film. “My girlfriend [Barbara Hershey] has worked with him twice. She did Boxcar Bertha with him and she did Last Temptation of Christ, which has to be one of my favorite films.”
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