People want to classify and say, 'OK, this is a gangster film.' 'This is a Western.' 'This is a... ' You know? It's easy to classify and it makes people feel comfortable, but it doesn't matter, it doesn't really matter.
Martin ScorseseItโs also true that I might have never made Taxi Driver [1976] were it not for the success of Alice [Doesnโt Live Here Anymore, 1974]. The question of commercialism is a source of worry. Must one make a choice, must it be a matter of either setting your sights on winning an Academy Award and becoming a millionaire, or making only the movies you want to make and starving to death?
Martin ScorseseI think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all.
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