Does he work at all like Martin Scorsese?
It was interesting as he does tons of takes, because Bob goes over and over and over, always refining it, maybe doing a variation. Maybe he’s used to doing it with Martin. He had to see things and respond to it rather than imagine it. He needed to see it. Sometimes people would get really tired, sometimes he’d have to act something out in order to talk to you, which was okay. A couple of times I’d say “get away that’s not my instinct.” He’d laugh and laugh about it. Eventually I just came to the conclusion that it was like working with a painter, you make a sketch and then he keeps refining it, refining it, refining it. Bob would sometimes come up with some great behavioural details that were very truthful and honest. He has that kind of emotional intelligence. Take Clooney for example – he is verbally intelligent whereas Bob is the one who is emotionally intelligent. You’re hard to spot in Raging Bull. What was the scene you were in? I’m sitting at the table and I say “Hi, Jake, you’v
