Scorsese

SCORSESE: I had that feeling for "The Mean Streets" of course and to a certain extent "New York, New York" there's no doubt.

The wild romance between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton is to be made into a film by Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese.

With a forward by Martin Scorsese, anyone who picks up this book can delve into the mind of a legendary director at work.

As a result, at least the way Scorsese tells the story, he won the right to finally make his passion project, The Last Temptation.

If you're Martin Scorsese, you can make a living out of it, you know.

SCORSESE: That was a year or two later.

For a filmmaker so conscious of the history of his art, it's hardly surprising that Scorsese is a generous mentor.

Scorsese has acted like a mentor, sending him detailed materials from his production.

To be standing here, where Martin Scorsese won his Oscar, is such a joy. Such a joy.

That, says Scorsese, was when he knew the film had to be shot in black and white.

Here's a little list of the side jobs that Martin Scorsese, who turned 69 this November 17, has been involved in over the past two years.

Think Scorsese is just a director of gangster flicks? Think again.

Scorsese's follow-up to The King of Comedy was After Hours, a quirky comedy starring Griffin Dunne.

SCORSESE: Thelma and I, Thelma Schoonmaker and I, really hadn't placed too much on the sound effects while we were editing the film.

SCORSESE: In colour it might have been too much. But if you have seen some fights upfront, it might not have been exaggerating too much.

Scorsese has sweated the details of his career as thoroughly as the details of his movies.

As Van Patten and Winter were setting up Boardwalk Empire, Scorsese regularly invited them to his offices for screenings.

In an era when careers are measured in months rather than decades, Scorsese has reliably delivered for 45 years--but it still isn't easy.

THE HOSTESS: Martin Scorsese as a rather neurotic passenger addressing a silent Robert DeNiro in a 1976's "Taxi Driver" .

This work on the side, especially the music documentaries, has become increasingly vital for Scorsese.

Martin Scorsese's Hugo and Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris are both largely set in a romanticised version of the French capital.

Scorsese, to pick a side in an endless argument, is America's greatest living director.

SCORSESE: I didn't know if I was interested, or could feel strongly about mounting a film again after that.

"This is when you see I ain't got certain scenes and I wish I had them, " says Scorsese.

It's not thought of as Scorsese's finest work, but it did win him his long-overdue Oscar.

Scorsese even gave himself a small part, as a passenger, in DeNiro's "Taxi" .

Scorsese's Shutter Island may now stand a bigger chance, and perhaps Peter Jackson's Lovely Bones will impress.

Robert De Niro and Jack Nicholson are his favorite actors, and Martin Scorsese is his favorite director.

But the tortured production drained Scorsese financially.

All directors face pressure to make their films shorter, and Scorsese simply cannot deliver a short film.

The film directors Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg also paid tribute.

"They saw me as outside Hollywood, " Scorsese remembers.

Of course, Scorsese wants a violent, sexed-up, mob-related picture.

And some of Scorsese's greatest creative moments have come about because of suggestions by those closest to him.

1976 - The Band gives its last public performance, Martin Scorsese is on hand to film it (see: The Last Waltz).

Huge Scorsese fan. I can watch "Taxi Driver" over and over again.

The early '80s were difficult for Scorsese.

Scorsese, who won his first best director Oscar in 2006 for The Departed, wants his current muse DiCaprio to play the Rat Pack singer.

Yes, Mr. Scorsese.

"There are two kinds of power you have to fight, " Scorsese says.

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Director Martin Scorsese on the set