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, Gooodfellas--these titles conjure up a world and a style of filmmaking that he 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 Francios Truffaut, has an unbridled passion for film--a passion which is evident in every frame of his work.

This new, revised edition includes chapters on Goodfellas, Cape Fear, The Age of Innocence, and other projects up to Casino, thus bringing up to date the story of America's most exciting and articulate contemporary filmmaker.

马丁・斯科西斯，美国著名电影导演，1942年11月17日出生于美国纽约市的著名的“小意大利”区――皇后区一个熨衣工家庭，父母都是虔诚的意大利裔天主教徒。意大利移民的后裔的宗教文化和生活理念赋予他以无数灵感，他的作品始终带有美籍意大利裔文化的烙印。

在好莱坞只崇尚商业结果的环境下，斯科塞斯一直坚持自己的意愿，不遗余力地追求电影语言的探索，赢得了“电影社会学家”的美誉。他的作品多次荣获各大电影节大奖。代表作有《穷街陋巷》、《出租车司机》、《愤怒的公牛》、《基督最后的诱惑》、《纯真年代》等。