“One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.”
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I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.
It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.