"Could you double-check the envelope? - a disbelieving Martin
Scorsese asked after being handed his long-awaited Academy award for
Best Director.|
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"Could you double-check the envelope? - a disbelieving Martin
Scorsese asked after being handed his long-awaited Academy award for
Best Director.
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"So many people have been wishing this for me for so many years...strangers, walking in the streets, at the doctor's office, whatever...people say to me 'You should win one! You should win one!' I go in for X-rays, and they say 'you should win one.' And I say 'Thank you' ...but I say that... friends that I've known for years have been wishing this for me and my family, and [to them] I say, 'this is for you.'" - Scorsese accepting his award
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"Working with Marty is quite something. It's tumultuous, passionate, funny ... it's like being in the best film school in the world." - Thelma Schoonmaker who won an Oscar for Best Editing
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"That was an extraordinary moment when the three of them came out and gave me a look," Scorsese said later. "We go back. Steven and I go back to 1968-69. Francis, 1970. George, 1970. I just went up to San Francisco to see Francis and his new film, which is quite wonderful, at George's new theatre. "So they have influenced me. Francis has been like a big brother in my life. Spielberg and Lucas and I have -- particularly in that first 10 or 12 years in the 1970s and early '80s -- worked together, really worked together, and helped each other with each other's films. It's almost like a private little film school. And to see the three of them walk out and give me a look before they opened the envelope, I was very surprised, very surprised."
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"I do admire the career achievement," Scorsese said backstage after finally getting his first personal Oscar as best director. He had lost the directing prize five times before, including for his 1980 masterpiece Raging Bull, and also lost in a screenwriting category twice. "I saw Howard Hawks get a career achievement award (in 1975). So it's a very special award. But it is a different feeling having been chosen."
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"To be standing here where Martin Scorsese won his Oscar is such a joy." - The Departed producer, Graham King
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On the red carpet before the Oscar ceremony, Scorsese revealed that his little 7-year-old daughter Francesca has a blue bird named Leo: "He's named after DiCaprio." Scorsese confirmed.
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Graham King (The Departed producer) on what motivated Scorsese to do the film: "A man of his level just makes a film when he really gets attracted to the material - and he did with this. He loved the characters and the whole cat-and-mouse chase of it. He called me up after he had read it and said it was like an old-fashioned Cagney movie: a cross between that and a British noir-type gangster film."
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King on what it was like to work with Scorsese: "I have a lot of press asking me what is it's like being the boss of Martin Scorsese. No-one is the boss of Martin Scorsese. He is his own boss. But he is such a great collaborator with producers, actors and everybody, that it makes it a joy to work with him. He doesn't look down his nose at anyone. He listens to everyone's opinion."
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"He just loves to talk with people about film," says Graham King. "Everything he talks, he talks in film language. You'll ask him, 'How are you feeling today?' and he'll reply that he is feeling like that guy in that 1935 movie so and so. If you enjoy film, he is the greatest guy to be around."
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"I'd love to have a bunch of Oscars. It would be fun. But I'm at a point in my life where I'm just happy enough to make the pictures. But I feel good about any awards. I love the film critics' awards from different cities; I'd love the grand prize again in Cannes if I could get it." - Scorsese on not winning an Oscar (Playboy, April 1991)
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Thelma Schoonmaker on working exclusively with Martin Scorsese: "Why would I want to work for any other director? He always has another feature coming along, fortunately for me. I'm very lucky because a lot of my fellow editors don't have this luxury. They're waiting for work, sometimes a year or so. It's awful. And in between we do these documentaries. They refresh his palate, he says, and we learn so much. For me, it's a great and refreshing and wonderful learning experience. And then I get to go on to another movie that's very different from the previous. What could be more different than Kundun and Goodfellas and Casino? It's so rich. I have no desire to work for anybody else. I'm very lucky. I think my fellow editors would like to kill me, frankly, so one of them could get a crack at him!"
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