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Martin Scorsese is one of the most revered and successful living filmmakers in American cinema. Scorsese was born and raised in New York City to an Italian family in 1942. Suffering from asthma at a young age, Scorsese was not permitted to play sports or go outside for extended periods of time.

Instead, his family took him to the movies nearly every day, where he developed his ardent passion for cinema.

Scorsese initially intended to become a priest, but his career interests eventually turned to filmmaking. He attended New York University and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in English and an MFA in Film.

Scorsese frequently cites Italian neorealism and the French New Wave as his major inspirations; European cinema's influence on Scorsese is evident in some of his early short films like The Big Shave (1967) and What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1963).

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