Leo, what is it about Scorsese as a director and a person that attracts you to his films?
Leonardo DiCaprio: I’m a fan of his work, number one. I suppose for me that it all started during “This Boy’s Life” with Robert DeNiro and getting sort of familiar with Robert DeNiro’s work, and obviously that means Martin Scorsese’s work as well. So I became a fan of his work at a very early age. If you asked me who I wanted to work with starting out in the business, it would have been him, and I got fortunate enough to work with him on Gangs of New York in 2000. I don’t have an exciting term for it other than we have a good time working together and we have similar tastes as far as the films we like. He certainly has broadened my spectrum as far as the history of cinema and the importance of cinema. It really brought me to different levels as an actor. I look at him as a mentor. The Departed is in theaters this Friday and is rated ‘R’ for strong brutal violence, pervasive language, some strong sexual content and drug material. The Departed was released October 6th, 2006 and stars Leo
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