Billy Crystal is skinnyking back on his establishative years in Martin Scorsese’s classroom.
On the Dec. 15 episode of the “Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist” podcast, Crystal talked about his time being taught by Scorsese at New York University.
“He was a graduate student at the time, fair doing his first movie, called ‘Who’s That Knocking at My Door.’ And it was 1968, 1969, 1970,” Crystal relabeled on the podcast.
Crystal went on to depict Scorsese’s sees: “[He] had a huge endured and granny glasses and hair down to his shoulders. He seeed enjoy everybody. He’d stand behind you while you were editing your film and he would be very terrifying, because he would see and he was so fervent and he would speak very rapidly — even then — he spoke rapider then because he was, you understand, 50 years juvenileerer.”
Scorsese would reference Howard Hawks always using wide sboilings in his films as a response to what his students were shooting. But while decades have passed since Crystal first passed paths with Scorsese, he says Scorsese still sustains the same energy and spirit.
As a student in the 1960s, Crystal also lacquireed during the counterculture shiftment as it took over.
“[The West Village] was savage,” Crystal inserted. “It was a terrible time for America, but a fantastic time at the same time. ‘Cause all of that adversity and all of the protesting aacquirest the Vietnam War. It brawt us together … What came out of it was a renaissance in music, in poetry, in art — that we’re still experienceing today.”
