Martin Scorsese Net Worth

Martin Scorsese's Quotes

• The only person who has the right attitude about boxing in the movies for me was Buster Keaton.
• [on sports] Anything with a ball, no good.
• Because of the movies I make, people get nervous, because they think of me as difficult and angry. I am difficult and angry, but they don't expect a sense of humor. And the only thing that gets me through is a sense of humor.
• [on Raging Bull (1980)] Robert De Niro wanted to make this film. Not me. I don't understand anything about boxing. For me, it's like a physical game of chess.
• It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

Interesting Facts about Martin Scorsese

1. (December 19, 1996) Listed as one of 50 people barred from entering Tibet. Disney clashed with Chinese officials over the film Kundun (1997), which Scorsese directed.
2. Awarded third annual John Huston Award for Artists Rights by the Artists Rights Foundation. [1995]
3. Presented with a special tribute at the 1976 Telluride Film Festival. It was presented by Michael Powell. [1976]
4. Is a longtime friend and was once a housemate of The Band's Robbie Robertson. He directed The Last Waltz (1978), the documentary of their supposedly last gig which Robertson produced. Robertson later produced the soundtrack for Scorsese's The Color of Money (1986).
5. Good friends with editor Thelma Schoonmaker and cinematographer Michael Ballhaus. Scorsese introduced Thelma to her husband Michael Powell and he often quotes Powell as an influence.
6. His name is pronounced "Scor-sez-see".
7. He directed Michael Jackson's music video Michael Jackson: Bad (1987). The full length video runs 16 minutes and is in both black and white and color. It is usually shortened down to just the color segment for television.
8. He appears as attached to his pet white Bichon Frise Zoe as he was to his beloved parents - except Zoe is right beside Marty every day in the office.
9. Has one daughter with Helen Morris Scorsese: Francesca Scorsese. Has one daughter with Julia Cameron: Domenica Cameron-Scorsese.
10. John Woo dedicated his action film Dip huet seung hung (1989) to Scorsese on a commentary he did for the movie's DVD.
11. Taught both Oliver Stone and Spike Lee at New York University.
12. Was at one point going to make a movie about the life of comedian Richard Pryor.
13. He was an altar boy at Old St. Patrick's Cathedral, which was used in his early films I Call First (1967) and Mean Streets (1973). Old St. Patrick's is also where the baptism scene in The Godfather (1972) took place.
14. Was at one point slated to direct Clockers (1995), but for reasons that are not entirely clear, handed the directing chores to his onetime NYU student Spike Lee, while staying on as producer. He was also at one point going to direct Little Shop of Horrors (1986) for David Geffen, with Steven Spielberg as the executive producer. He was ultimately uninvolved, but claims that he wanted to shoot the movie in 3-D. It no doubt would have been a loving homage to Roger Corman, for whom he directed Boxcar Bertha (1972).
15. He took a cameo in his film Taxi Driver (1976) (as a man about to kill his wife) only because the actor who was supposed to play the role was sick on the day the scene was to be shot. Says he is generally uncomfortable in front of the camera.
16. Has a dog named Silas.
17. Is the subject of the song "Martin Scorsese" by the alternative band King Missile.
18. Father of actress Cathy Scorsese with Laraine Marie Brennan.
19. Of the three films he has been trying to make since the mid-1970s, he has done two: The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and Gangs of New York (2002). The third film, a biopic of Dean Martin called "Dino", has been on hiatus at Warner Brothers since the late 1990s. Scorsese has a very specific all A-list cast in mind, probably why this has yet to be produced. He wants Tom Hanks to star as Martin, Jim Carrey to play Jerry Lewis, John Travolta to play Frank Sinatra, Hugh Grant to play Peter Lawford, and Adam Sandler to play Joey Bishop.
20. Was voted the fourth greatest director of all time by Entertainment Weekly, making him the only living person in the top 5 and the only working film director in the top 10 (Ingmar Bergman being retired as a filmmaker).