The interviews with the director Martin Scorsese which make up this book reveal a man with an unbridled passion for film. This revised edition contains material on "GoodFellas", "Cape Fear", "The Age of Innocence", and other projects up to "Casino".
Martin Scorsese's challenging and often controversial films are a record of the most personal achievement in modern American cinema. Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, GoodFellas - these titles conjure up a world and a style of film-making that Scorsese has made his own, one of a savage beauty of great intensity and truth.
The interviews which make up this book chart the journey that Scorsese has taken across the years in search of new subjects to engage and absorb him, and in the process reveal a man who, like Michael Powell and Francois Truffaut, has an unbridled passion for film - a passion which is evident in every frame of his work.
Scorsese on Scorsese was originally published in 1989 and this revised edition was published in 1996. An updated edition - to include Scorsese's work up to and including The Gangs of New York - is published in May 2003.