Hämtad från signatur-Läser :
MARTIN SCORSESE: The only good thing about the drug use is that it was very obvious in my case. And I just had to go to that brick wall. Nobody was going to tell me otherwise, whether it was a rock 'n' roller, or a studio executive, or an actor. People can try to guide me, but I always have to go my own way.
RS: The only reason I bring it up is because it's part of the public record of your life.
MS: Right. After "New York, New York" I was exhausted to the point where a number of people were worried about my health. I said, "Don't worry, I'm fine." And then after the Labor Day weekend in Telluride, at the film festival, I got back to New York and suffered a total collapse. That's when I finally went to the hospital, and that's when De Niro came to visit and asked if I wanted to do the film. Really, we had been working on it since Taxi Driver. I realized I had nothing else to do. I had exhausted all the possibilities. Even my friends were all going off on their own. I was alone. And it was time to go back to work. And what I discovered - it's in "Raging Bull" and it's in the other pictures later on - is that I had to come to terms with something.
Så verkar Scorsese rädda sitt eget liv, men DiNero hade en hand i den. Eller kanske en konversation med Ebert på den filmfestivalen orsakade det första fallet. Tufft att berätta.