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Martin Scorsese Tells All in New Book
Author Richard Schickel talks turkey (and turkeys) with the director
At one point in the interview, he says something like, "Can we talk about something other than Raging Bull and Goodfellas?" He wants to talk about Kundun; he wants to talk about Age of Innocence. In a way, people shorthand him. They say, "It's all gangsters." He's actually made far more non-gangster films than gangster films.
Right. When Scorsese first came to Hollywood, he really wanted to be a studio guy and do it all, like a Michael Curtiz.
Martin Scorsese smells trouble on the set of New York, New York.
That kind of came true, didn't it? He is a genre filmmaker, but a personal genre filmmaker.
You've got to think he's achieved everything. What's left?
Well, he has this picture he's been trying to get on about Jesuit priests in Japan. The Silence. He and Jay Cocks have been working on that script for something like a decade, off and on, and I think he's getting close to doing it. He's had trouble because [financiers] think they can't sell a movie about Jesuits in the 17th century in Japan. It seems to me that Marty has long since earned the right to do whatever he fucking wants. It's sort of deplorable to me that filmmakers of Marty's stature have to put up with that. It should be, "Hey, look, we can't really take that budget. You're going to have to squeeze X millions of dollars off of it. If you can do that, make the movie."
What is it he loves most about making movies? When is he the happiest?
He may be at his happiest when he's finished the film and he's sitting there with Thelma [Schoonmaker, Scorsese's longtime editor]. He loves mixing films. That's when his compulsive tendencies can go indulged with little expense to the studio. The ability to endlessly screw around with the thing. I think he could do that forever.
Conversations With Scorsese (Alfred A. Knopf) is out now.
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