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.

馬丁・斯科西斯，美國著名電影導演，1942年11月17日齣生於美國紐約市的著名的“小意大利”區――皇後區一個熨衣工傢庭，父母都是虔誠的意大利裔天主教徒。意大利移民的後裔的宗教文化和生活理念賦予他以無數靈感，他的作品始終帶有美籍意大利裔文化的烙印。

在好萊塢隻崇尚商業結果的環境下，斯科塞斯一直堅持自己的意願，不遺餘力地追求電影語言的探索，贏得瞭“電影社會學傢”的美譽。他的作品多次榮獲各大電影節大奬。代錶作有《窮街陋巷》、《齣租車司機》、《憤怒的公牛》、《基督最後的誘惑》、《純真年代》等。