It's all black and white. Its Scorcese... Martin Scorcese

Coming to Hollywood was not my life long dream.... It was the typical love did not work out scenario that brought me here. When I looked around me and realized where I had landed, it started to dawn on me. You are in Hollywood, fool! You love to create! This just might be the ticket for me. Finally finding the beast I could not control. One with so many facets and avenues, that making films or producing them might be something that would provide me the vehicle to endlessly create.

When I was going to film school, there were so many mentors, teachers, actors, agents and directors to choose from to guide me. One of the most intense and such a strong force, that to this day, I continue to learn... Martin Scorcese. There have been books, courses, lives that continue to change because of the genius that is Scorcese. One of the most recent that had inspired me. Of course, it takes place in my other home, Paris!!. It is called Hugo.....

What spoke to me was the beauty and the attention to detail that is so "Scorcese"..... This is just a taste of the vision that Scorcese gives on every project. A true inspiration to so many people. It should be obvious as to why I chose him.....

Here are some fun facts that a lot of people do not know about Martin.

After serious deliberations about entering the priesthood - he entered a seminary in 1956 - Martin Scorsese opted to channel his passions into film. He graduated from NYU as a film major in 1964.

Scorsese became friends with the influential "movie brats" of the 1970s: Brian De Palma, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. It was Brian De Palma who introduced Scorsese to Robert De Niro.

Frequently uses music by The Rolling Stones, especially the song "Gimme Shelter" (Goodfellas (1990), Casino (1995), The Departed (2006)).

Frequently sets his films in New York City

Unflinchingly graphic and realistic violence

Often works with Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Leonardo DiCaprio

Many of his films highlight the fun and glamorous side of immoral behavior while also unflinchingly showing the ultimate cost to both the person and everyone around them

Many of his films have at least one character who is known for being extremely violent, temperamental or generally unpredictable

He directed Michael Jackson's Michael Jackson: Bad (1987) music video. The full length video runs 16 minutes and is in both black & white and color. It is usually shortened down to just the color segment for television.

He was an altar boy at Old St. Patrick's Cathedral, which was used in his early films Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967) and Mean Streets (1973). Old St. Patrick's is also where the baptism scene in The Godfather (1972) took place.

He was one of three major directors to have been offered the opportunity to direct Schindler's List (1993) by producer Steven Spielberg, the other two being Roman Polanskiand Billy Wilder. Scorsese thought a Jewish filmmaker should direct it; Polanski wasn't yet ready to deal with the painful subject (having lost his mother in the Holocaust); and Wilder (who was retired and who lost his mother and grandmother in the Holocaust) finally told Spielberg that he should do it himself.

The Wolf Of Wall Street (2013) is the highest-grossing movie of his 47-year career with a worldwide gross of $389,600,694.

The Aviator (2004) was his first movie to gross over $100 million in the U.S.

He has worked with big names of music business: Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, U2 Michael Jackson and David Bowie.

Resides in New York City. His production offices are located on W. 57th Street in Manhattan.

The death of Federico Fellini was very similar to his father's death. Bypass surgery, a stroke and then a coma. Scorsese also noted that they both lasted exactly the same days in the coma.

Scorsese's elaborate 2010 docu-commercial for "Bleu de Chanel" men's French fragrance, flashes a very brief image of a clapper board with the name - "C Cappa" - written on the Director credit space. Apparently this is an homage to his mother whose maiden name was C(atherine) Cappa.

Went to see The Searchers (1956) on the afternoon of the day that he graduated from Parochial school.

Was given the script of Taxi Driver (1976) by his friend Brian De Palma.

Admits he made Hugo (2011) so he'd have at least one film his daughter could watch.

Despite being known for directing extremely dark and often very violent movies, he is known in real life to be a very friendly, polite and mild-mannered person who gets along very well with his cast and crew.

Martin Scorsese and Robert de Niro were brought up blocks apart in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan, but never formally met when they were young. When introduced at a party in 1972, the two came to realize that they had seen each other many times but had never spoken.

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Quotes from "Scorcese"

At this point, I find that the excitement of a young student or filmmaker can get me excited again. I like showing them things and seeing how their minds open up, seeing the way their response then gets expressed in their own work. (2011)

I was never interested in the accumulation of money, you know. And I never had a mind for business. There have been serious issues with money over the years. I have a nice house now, in New York. But there have been major, major issues. In the mid-'80s it was pathetic, I mean, my father would help me out. I couldn't go out, I couldn't buy anything. But it's all my own doing.

There is an essence to the project that you must protect. You cannot make concessions on that, the story cannot be tampered with past that point; you have to fight off every power or force around you.

I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite satisfied.

Such a huge talent and with so many never ending stories, but where do I end this or begin..... All the points that I have listed, I identify with on so many levels.

Similar as to writing my stories or scripts, the characters become alive, become good friends, become great antagonists to my own life....

So, what has made you so excited you can't sleep, that you are always going over scenarios, always going over those scenes in your head. Your vision, your mission!!!. This is part of mine. And definitely a part of "Scorcese". So Live!.... Life is a banquet and most of you are starving.... Cheers!!! See you soon!