Q 01/05

In which New York neighbourhood did Scorsese grow up?

A) Bensonhurst

B) Hell's Kitchen

C) Little Italy

D) Greenwich Village

Answer · why

C) Little Italy

Little Italy is also where, in 1974, he filmed his parents over dinner in their Elizabeth Street flat for Italianamerican; his mother's meatball recip...

Q 02/05

Scorsese's family name was Scozzese until a transcription slip; what does Scozzese mean in Italian?

A) Sicilian

B) Scholar

C) Scottish

D) Shoemaker

Answer · why

C) Scottish

Scottish is what Scozzese means. When Scorsese first visited his grandfather's home town in Sicily in 1979, the mismatch meant his search for relative...

Q 03/05

Which childhood condition kept Scorsese from sports and sent him to the movies instead?

A) Asthma

B) Rheumatic fever

C) Poor eyesight

D) Polio

Answer · why

A) Asthma

Asthma kept him off the streets and in cinema seats, where he saw The Red Shoes as a small boy; decades later he led the drive to restore that very fi...

Q 04/05

The only other teenager renting The Tales of Hoffmann as often as Scorsese later directed which film?

A) Halloween

B) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

C) Night of the Living Dead

D) A Nightmare on Elm Street

Answer · why

C) Night of the Living Dead

Night of the Living Dead was the debut of George A. Romero, who travelled in from the Bronx to hire the 16mm print and called the opera fantasy his fa...

Q 05/05

Which career did the teenage Scorsese first set his heart on?

A) Teacher

B) Lawyer

C) Doctor

D) Priest

Answer · why

D) Priest

Priest was the plan: he entered a junior seminary but was out within a year, and enrolled at New York University's film school instead.