Mean Streets

“So it’s made me want to see Mean Streets again. So Mean Streets is coming with me.”

“Back to basics. Mean Streets. Just... No comment, just perfect. I love Scorsese, any Scorsese I love. I love his films. I love the man.”

“Mean Streets this is the movie that made me want to be an actor. I'm not even joking that improvised scene where he's like I went and bought this tie and Harvey Keitel is trying to get the money from De Niro. I watch that over and over. I still watch that and the music and the atmosphere and the energy and everything. This is pure.”

“Mean Streets is also my neighborhood where I live in New York since 14 years. Later on I started working with Robert De Niro and walking those streets with him and understanding where I live of a neighborhood that I have only known since it's already hype and not what it used to be. Seeing it through his eyes, it's something that really moved me and I never look at the neighborhood the same way. So that's something I have to take.”

“This being one of them. In the same way that Do the Right Thing blew my head off, that blew my head off, because I went, 'You mean people make films like this? Who made this?' A man called Martin Scorsese. What’s incredible about Mean Streets, now that you have his body of work, is to kind of begin here and keep going through and then finish with the documentary about him. That is a real treat. A time commitment, but one not misspent.”

“Mean Streets. This movie is something I also just recently rewatched and it’s… not in the same way, but it feels like, with Paul, with Punch-Drunk Love, and with this – and by the way, also, these are two fantastic directors – but it feels like they were both trying to figure something out, and it worked so well. Mean Streets feels like something that… it feels tangible for me and my friends to go make. And also, by the way, Robert De Niro in this is just a godsend. It’s crazy.”

“Mean Streets. Come on now. 1973. I feel like I’m leaning more towards early ’70s movies. Scorsese at his best. Rough, raw. Another movie you want to study. Study frames, look at the way the storytelling is rolled out. I’m into it.”