The Age of Scorsese
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Harper’s Bazaar November 2011 Laura Brown

This is an excerpt from an article with and about legendary director Martin Scorsese from the November 2011 edition of Harper’s Bazaar magazine.

Celebrated actors and Scorsese collaborators tell their own tales about one of the world’s greatest storytellers.

CAMERON DIAZ

I first met him when I went in for Casino. I was a baby. I met Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese and I was like, What is happening?! There wasn’t a shot I was going to get the part, but they were just so lovely to me. When we did Gangs of New York, he knew everything about that time in history: where did these people come from, why did they come here, who they are.

His women are very strong. Look at his late mother. It’s a perfect depiction of how he looks at women. His mother was everything to him. He put her in the movies—and she totally ran the show. I think for Marty, things are so consuming. He does things on such a big scale; he’s a big thinker. His movies are so captivating because you walk into a world that’s fully thought out. He’s also really into preservation of many things: of culture, of ideas and eras. [Laughs.] I think strawberry preserves are his favorite. No, really, there are posters everywhere, stacks of everything. He just knows more about anything than anybody else.

© 2011 Harper’s Bazaar.

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