Billy Crystal and Martin Scorsese have little question shared many a room of their many years in present enterprise, however it began out at New York College.

Crystal, a younger movie scholar, had Scorsese, a hyperactive grad scholar, as one among his professors, and in a current interview, the longer term When Harry Met Sally star and beloved Oscar host remembers how "scary" the longer term Oscar winner was even again then.

“I used to be in movie college right here [at NYU], and Martin Scorsese was my movie manufacturing professor,” Crystal stated on Right this moment’s Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist podcast. “He was a graduate scholar on the time, simply doing his first film, referred to as Who’s That Knocking at My Door. And it was 1968, 1969, 1970.”

Scorsese's characteristic movie debut, and in addition the appearing debut of its star Harvey Keitel, Who’s That Knocking at My Door premiered on the 1967 Chicago Movie Competition, was launched to theaters the next yr, after which re-issued in 1970.

Solely six years older than Crystal, the comic nonetheless discovered Scorsese intimidating.

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“And [he] had an enormous beard and granny glasses and hair all the way down to his shoulders. He regarded like all people,” Crystal joked. “He’d stand behind you whilst you have been modifying your movie, and he could be very scary, as a result of he would look and he was so intense and he would converse in a short time — even then — he spoke faster then as a result of he was, you recognize, 50 years youthful.”

Although he would change into maybe the best filmmaker of his era, Marty Scorsese gave the impression of a fairly horrible movie trainer, the best way Crystal describes him.

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“And he’d go, ‘Why’d you shoot it that approach? Use a large shot! Howard Hawks at all times used a large shot.’ I stated, ‘I’m 19 — I don’t know who Howard Hawks is!’" the When Harry Met Sally star stated, referring to the legendary director of such classics as Bringing Up Child, His Woman Friday, and Gents Choose Blondes.

A half-century later, Crystal says Scorsese nonetheless appears like the very same individual with "the identical vitality" when he sees him.

Whereas Scorsese was his professor, Oliver Stone and Christopher Visitor have been amongst Crystal's classmates. Crystal graduated from NYU in 1970 together with his BFA and although he made a reputation for himself primarily as an actor, he did ultimately make use of that Scorsese training; Crystal made his characteristic directorial debut with 1992's Mr. Saturday Night time, which he tailored to the stage for a 2022 Broadway musical. Crystal would go on to direct three extra movies: 1995's Neglect Paris, the 2001 TV film 61*, and most lately 2021's Right here Right this moment.

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As for Scorsese, he had his breakthrough movie with 1973's Imply Streets, starring Keitel and a younger Robert De Niro earlier than churning out masterpieces like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, Goodfellas, The Age of Innocence, The Wolf of Wall Avenue, and Killers of the Flower Moon. Out of 10 Finest Director Oscar nominations, Scorsese gained his first and solely trophy for 2006's The Departed.