Martin Scorsese reveals amazing the fact to become a priest

Martin Scorsese simply reflects the fact that his premature exit from a Catholic School of Seminars that would change his life.

The 82 -year -old opened for his obsession with religion in Rebecca Miller’s new documentary Mr. Scorsese, premiered on October 4, at the New York Film Festival.

As Taxi driver The director remembers in the first episode of the series, he was deeply moved when he first watched the Catholic mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York around the age of seven and even followed religious education in his teens.

“There was a preparatory seminar, and that was on the 85th street somewhere, I did okay for the first months, but something happened,” Skorsese said.

He continued: “I began to realize that the world was changing, it was early rock and roll, and the old world was dying out, I met the life around me, in love or attracting the girls, not that you act outside, but there were these feelings and suddenly I realized that you are much more.”

“The idea of ​​priesthood, in order to devote yourself to others, really, it is,” could be heard further by saying to the documentary.

“I realized that I didn’t belong there and tried to stay, but they took my father there and they said, ‘Get him out of here.’ Because I behaved badly, “he explained.

While the Murderers of the moon of flowers The director did not mention what he had done, however, Joe Morale, one of his childhood friends, claimed in the documentary that Scorsese “had a heavy eye for the ladies” as a teenager.

Martin Scorsese’s charm with religion has remained steady throughout his life and career, as the director has made many films about Catholicism in his career, including 1988 The last temptation of Christ and 2017’s Silenceas well as to cover the life of established Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, in 1997 Kundun.