[Applause] Aaron
hi couldn't you get a cab
all right [Laughter]
are you are you gonna interrupt Mr snow you know you can hey hey
you can stay you can stay but just you know behave yourself and care
careful I don't think that cable is UL approved so be very careful [Laughter]
our next guest is one of America's Finest film directors his work of course includes
taxi driver and Goodfellas and many many others the current number one box office hit as Cape
Fear ladies and Gentlemen please welcome back to the program Martin Scorsese [Music]
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congratulations on the Cape Fear this thing is really really very exciting Now isn't it I
know it's amazing yeah doing great business for us absolutely yeah uh I was reading uh I guess it was
in a couple of weeks ago somewhere a profile of Nick Nolte yes and he was talking about this movie
and he said he had a theory about his character in the film where he was going to start to appear and
walk more and more like a Simeon like an ape or something and he said but don't tell the director
that's right now did this ever come up did you have to say hey Nick you're acting like a monkey
the very last two days the bride caught him in one shot and he was wonderful he had he had teeth he
had put in new teeth and and he was moving like he studied the Apes in the beginning of 2001. and
he was well you'll see when you see the picture you'll understand it's it kind of regresses to
a primal State yeah and only one time I caught him Nick a little too much like a monkey but I
had never seen any of that makeup or anything but do you run into that often where an actor uh will
have a theory about the part and the film that may not coincide with yours not not too often
when it does usually they don't tell me and it takes a lot of detective work what are they doing
what do they want me to think you know yeah so why why are you doing that and they had come up
with an idea and I said no no simple simple keep it simple yeah that's the main thing yeah uh now
somebody explained to me one time that directing a movie uh is pretty much you spend your entire day
solving problems is that is that a fair assessment of what a director does certainly part of it part
of it I think but basically uh it's answering questions it's answering questions like who's
in the next scene or where do you want the camera which is the biggest question to things like what
are you taking your coffee all on the same level of importance yeah so I always wanted to carry a
tape recorder around me one day and just record all the questions that uh that you that you are
asked during the day things like you know when you want that person to come on the set or it
just goes on and on and finally you just don't want to hear from anybody yeah it has there been
and and uh and forgive me if this is silly has there been a scene in a film or part of a scene
in a film that you've done in your life that you just kind of turned your back on it and
crossed your fingers and said to yourself ah I don't have a clue here let's just see what the
hell it's a there's a couple of things there's a couple of things there's a there's a few scene
well for example the scene I did with my mother in uh Goodfellas at the uh I had a clue I had a
clue but I had no idea what she was going to say so we put two cameras in a very small room in the
dining room in Queens I think this is after the boys have come back from kind of a Grizzly yeah
they had they had an unfortunate incident and uh it was in the trunk we didn't tell her there was a
body in the trunk yeah no you know so they come in the middle of the night and she sits and he says
come and sit down have some food and that sort of thing so I put a wide shot camera wide uh picking
up my mother Joe Pesci Ray Liotta and Bob De Niro and a title one on on Joe Pesci and my mother two
cameras simultaneously and she started talking and talking I said don't talk save it save it save it
and we started rolling all she the only written line was did I did I ever show you did I tell you
about my paintings that was the only written line everything else was winged yeah and and also is it
true that for for that scene and others uh she she provided the prop she actually cooked the food yes
yes what was the menu for that meal that night was because it was a snack was just potatoes and eggs
it's a snack I'll snack a light snack that the guys were eating you know piles of it
they were making out in the backyard and lots of bread and also some pizza yeah uh
and she has she cooks for for uh film scenes and also for the crew and has done this for
quite a while very important for my very first short films we had scenes with cooking in them
but in Goodfellas the food was very important the uh um the uh the menu was important and
uh she supervised uh the different uh dishes that uh that were in the picture
um and you know really actually made the food and if she also cooked for Cape Fear a bit okay but
mainly behind the scenes it's a American family in the South it's a different type of Cuisine yeah uh
she is excuse me Bill where'd he go oh darling I thought maybe he
had a question Cherry as well if you have any questions for
Mr Scorsese uh how do you how do you get a red sauce out of a white shirt
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why are you punks don't make me come over there
um I tell you what your your uh your mother is here yes she is and and I'm told that she is
prepared to show us how she makes pizza that is a favorite with you and also a hero and a
number of people okay we'll we'll do a commercial and then we'll bring your mother out right after
that all right we're back welcome this um this woman this lovely woman here is Martin's Mother
Catherine Catherine pleasure to have you with us on the program thank you for being here [Music]
and for us tonight you're making uh what obviously Pizza of some kind right no
he's like he's supposed to learn all right yeah what what is special about this pizza
well it's made by hand that's why it's special now do you make the dough do you start from
scratch I start from scratch that's right I'll put this on all right what do I put on no yeah
I'll show you how to put this on just let me put this on what what kind of a boy was uh Martin at
home oh Martin was a gem yeah always has been very good boy do you enjoy being in the films
you have to be in the films otherwise he threatens me
and and have there been films that uh that you see and you think and you have suggestions and you
tell them about change this or do that differently well he says to me if it's good I'll leave it and
if my body gets out yeah and what do you think of Cape Fear did it scare your shorts off no no
I'll do anything you want did you did you ever see Nick Nolte sneaking around like a monkey
all right I put some sauce around did you make the sauce yourself oh yeah I don't want to get on
smear it around all right nice not too much don't move much it gets too heavy all right that's it
Robert De Niro comes over and eats this pizza and Robert De Niro loves it he says I make the best
pizza in the whole world why is this different than other pizza because it's made by me yeah
now what do we do here so all right we've we have the dough we have the cheese we have the sauce
mozzarella goes under the sauce will you leave her alone
some cheese can I sprinkle that on there with the what what sort
of table manners does Robert De Niro have does it does eating his T-shirt
no he comes dressed up in clothes what's the matter with you [Applause]
I don't know what's the matter with me
all right okay all right we we have a half a minute now now Catherine can we can we
see the finished product here yes sure yeah go ahead yeah you use those oven mitts Marty
boy that's beautiful all right
come here come here come on come on it's gonna slice it up
you know you know Bill Murray yeah okay here's some pizza you're using scissors on that why
is that this is because my mother-in-law taught me how to use a system right she says you will
cut it better with a scissor instead of using like a like a knife you don't scratch your pan
okay all right well that's important for all of us don't scratch your pants uh we'll do a commercial
we'll be right back here okay Catherine thank you very much it was very nice of you to come here
and make this pizza for us and congratulations on Cape Fear thank you very much uh we have to
go folks have a lovely weekend thanks for being here good night everybody [Applause]
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