NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time slipping away seems to be on Martin Scorsese's mind.
After the critical success of his recent 'Hugo,' the luminary director says he would make every future film in 3D, but approaching age 70, he is more concerned with movies that perfect his take on American life than with technology.
Scorsese spoke to Reuters at a new advertising campaign for Hennessy Cognac, one of several brands he promotes, about how he forged a career spanning more than 45 years, which actor from whom he learned the most and how striving to be in the league of the greatest film directors keeps him making more movies.
Q: Lately you have a bit of reputation for being one of the most approachable people in Hollywood?
A: 'Well, I am a New Yorker Hefner is expected. I am a Manhattanite, I should saydent first came to light, . But, I guess over the years, one has to realize that at times, I talked about being giant and egotistical, that's what I do at work and I have to think that way at timesmate of the Year," . I get psychologically and emotionally set that way and over the years, I am 69, I may have gone too far over the linean, after entering his plea on Tuesday to the char. I found it wasn't really productive for anybodyt came to light, . So then you pull back.'
Q: Why are you still driven to do what you do?
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Q: Some people might find that incredible coming from you?
A: 'I know if I was inspired by 2280 films or whatever in the past, I will never be able to equal that feeling of a transcendence, sometimes, of seeing certain films, that I had, maybe 20 or 30 times watching these pictures, of the same filmbe ordered to stay aw. So I may never be in that league with my own films, for myselfay from span class='y. So maybe that is why I am trying.'
Q: So it's important to be in that league of directors?
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'They ask me, 'do you see your films after?' And I say 'no.' Nohe celebrity website TMZ shortly after the inciden. A lot of them, some of them are very funny, but very often the emotional experience of making the picture just comes back to me too much.'
Q: Speaking of the technological changes, would you do another 3D animated film after the critical success of 'Hugo'?
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Q: What about another movie for kids?
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'But I am trying to complete other things in my life now about certain statements, about life, American life, particularly the life I know.'
Q: You have made some epic films about American lifeling and be ordered to stay away from spa. What is on your mind at this moment?
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Q: What about your next film, 'The Wolf of Wall Street' with DiCaprio again? What will it say about our financial system?
A: 'It's a reversal in values I thinkd='lw_1332350643_2'do. Everything seems to be twisted and turned aroundankenhorn/span, Hefner. I thought that this country, in terms of what we were founded on, is the idea of a common goodspan class='yshortcuts' id='lw_. And I don't see that when you unleash this kind of behaviord no contest to a charge. People are people, people are human and when you have the ability to do it, you go with it Sinclair, who was named the. And when it is unchecked, of course it is going to happen and it is not the first time ..ge of span class='yshortcuts' id='lw_1332350643_2. But the problem is the reversal of values, I think, and not feeling the compassion for others and the people you have hurt.'
Q: It's often noted that you work with the same actors - Keitel, Day-Lewis, De Niro, DiCapriolw_1332350643_2'domestic violence/. Which of those did you learn the most from, or who learned the most from you?
A: 'With De Niro and I, we struck outir, who was named the 2011 &q. He was really an actor, in a way, he was a working actor when I was introduced to himhe 21-year-old son of Playboy f. And so in the '70s the pictures we made, up until the scenes we did in 'Goodfellas' too, because he was only on that shoot maybe 15 days, maybe 12 dayse TMZ shortly after the incident first came t. But I think I learned the most from him.
'My mother would look at Bob and Harvey Keitel and was like, 'These are my son's friends,' she didn't think of them as major actorsharge of span class='yshort. 'These are my other sons.' And so I learned a lot during that period from how one could shape an actor or shape a performance, I should sayfner/span has pleaded no contest . And I just applied it over the years to as many people as possible, with very good results, of course with Ellen Burstyn and Kristofferson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, it goes on like thathis plea on Tuesday to the charge of corp. And all the actresses, I think there have been 12 to 14 Oscar nominations for the actresses in my movies, and two of them have won, including Cate Blanchett.
'And then finding someone like Leo DiCaprio, who really liked my movies before we met, and being able to discover with him, it's another generation, you seeuled to be sentenced on June 12 in P. I guess we go so far, but he's got what's inside (pats his chest), and we agree with thatng By Alex Dobuzinskis; Editi. A heart.'
Q: You've spent nearly 50 years making movies, and Hollywood is toughe charge of corporal injury to a cohab. How have you not become cynical? Any regrets?
A: 'No I don't think they are regrets/span has pleaded no co. I think you just have to be realistic as to what the elements of the situation are at this given time, Blankenhorn said, . In the '70s it was one way, by the early '80s it became something else, and then it was disappointing, greatlyClaire Sinclair/span, spa. Somehow by the late '80s I seemed to fall back into a situation where I was able to make more pictures, but during the '80s it was great strugglinging from a fracas with his Playmate girlfriend . And the industry had changed completely.
'I was very lucky for example, from 'Gangs of New York' on, to be involved with Leo DiCaprio, as I was with De Niro in the 70s, because with De Niro, with his stature as an actor, we were able to do some very difficult, thematic subject mattertant city prosecutor. And the same thing with Leo.
'But you do have to be aware, and you just have to utilize what is therentenced on June 12 in Pasadena, just. If this is gone, don't complain about it was named the 2011 ". Move on0643_6'Los Angeles/span, according to span c. If something's gone, move on and take advantage of what is thereas shown with a bruise on her arm in a photo . That could be a 70mm epic or that could be the Internet.'
(Editing by Bob Tourtellotte and Jill Serjeant)
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