Quotation by Martin Scorsese:

When you listen to the otherwordly voice of Robert Johnson hitting those words "Blues Falling Down Like Hail" or Howlin' Wolf riding the rhythm of "Spoonful" with such amazing ease and more than living up to his name at the same time, or Skip James lamenting love, the worst of all human afflictions, in "Devil Got My Woman" or Son House hugging the memory of his dead lover for dear life in the tightly coiled "Death Letter Blues" you're hearing something from way, way back something eternal, elemental, something that defies rational thought, just like all the greatest art."
- Martin Scorsese, preface of Martin Scorsese presents the Blues

Martin Scorsese     (more by this author)

1942 -

Martin C. Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema, and has won awards from the Oscars, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese is president of The Film Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to film preservation.

Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, machismo, and violence. Scorsese is widely considered to be one of the most significant and influential American filmmakers of his era, directing landmark films such as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas "" all of which he collaborated on with actor and close friend Robert De Niro. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for The Departed and earned an MFA in film directing from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

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