30 PRODUCTION SOUND & VIDEO – WINTER 2024
A Conversation
Killers of the
What was it like working for an iconic director like
Martin Scorsese?
Well, first and foremost, filmmaking is my religion. I was
born and grew up in New York City. My coming of age
as a filmmaker was in the late '60s, early '70, and Martin
Scorsese's emergence into the iconography of cinema was
at its beginnings then, so working with him now has been
very significant for me. I believe he was an adjunct teacher
under Haig Manoogian at NYU in those days. Haig really
created the NYU film school, which eventually has become
one of the giant places of learning for cinema and for
emerging filmmakers. This was at a time when film school
was really looked down upon in Hollywood, and even the
New York community as an affectation. It's very different
now. Marty's scholarship, then and now, and all the time in
