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 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.Scorsese in full flight. For Martin Scorsese, making movies is about more than box office and art, it’s a way of life. Sitting in his New York office on the eve of the release of his Howard Hughes biopic, The Aviator, Scorsese was despondent about his ability to work. “I’m 62 years old and for the first time I feel it’s hard for me to say what I want. I have to have a choice of words - freedom of speech is going, no doubt about it, and it is going in cinema too. Given the sense of war and destruction, and with America having been almost isolated for so many years, it was inevitable. Hopefully, day by day, those that believe in freedom of speech can keep pushing the envelope back. The best I can do is to make a film every two years.”  For over 30 years, in films such as Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Raging Bull and Goodfellas, Scorsese has used cinema as a means of expression and escape: “A lot of my cinema comes from my own personal background, and converting those experiences into cinema and religion. As a child I had terrible asthma. I wasn’t able to really fight back physically in the streets, so I wound up in the movie theatre or a church. My working-class Italian-American parents didn’t go to school, there were no books in the house… A lot of what I’m obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.”  Once more in search of freedom, Scorsese has decided that having made the spectacular The Aviator and Gangs Of New York, he will return to the smaller budget, edgy films that he built his rep on: “I’m hoping the next picture will be The Departed. It’s a thriller - Irish gangsters in Boston. It’s based on a Chinese film.” Actually it’s based on three movies, as The Departed rolls the Infernal Affairs trilogy into a single opus, with Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio in the leading roles.
Kaleem Aftab
The Aviator, on general release 26 December 04.
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