Martin Scorsese finally just admits he’s built different

Obviously, there’s more to it than that. On the topic of Tarantino’s retirement, Scorsese smiled and whispered, “I don’t know, yeah.” But the AP’s interviewer finally said what we were all thinking, “You must be built differently,” to which Scorsese responded, “I am.”

While it’s fun to imagine Scorsese responding to all interview questions with “I’m built different” from here on out, the director offered a more nuanced take on his own limitations as an artist. “[Tarantino’s] a writer,” he said. “It’s a different thing. I come up with stories. I get attracted to stories through other people. All different means, different ways. And so I think it’s a different process. I respect writers, and I wish I could just be in a room and create these novels, not films, novels.”

The whole interview is very much worth watching, aside from the funny soundbite we’ve highlighted here. It’s the only place in this article that one can see Martin Scorsese rail against email (“Emails, they scare me. It says, ‘CC,’ and there’s a thousand names. Who are these people?”), discuss the beauty of Akira Kursawa’s late period, and share how he found the confidence and focus to keep making art. He also teases his upcoming Powell and Pressburger documentary and why he keeps rewatching Isle Of The Dead. Honestly, this guy is simply built different.