In a disappointingly thin interview with Martin Scorsese in the New York Times, Julie Salamon reveals that the director hates to fly, doesn't like his coffee to get too cold, and prefers to work on films like "The Aviator" in between his passion projects:
Why did Mr. Scorsese accept what he calls "the assignment" of making a period movie about the aviation pioneer Howard Hughes, whose epic life had tempted many filmmakers, but not him? A glamorous billionaire, test pilot and Hollywood director, Hughes also built an airline and slept with many trophy women (among them Katharine Hepburn, played in the film by Cate Blanchett). "The Aviator," which opens tomorrow, begins in the 1920's, when Hughes came to Hollywood, and ends in the 1940's, before he became notorious for his elusiveness and weirdness and more or less vanished from public view until his death, in 1976.Mr. Scorsese is famous for spending years nursing his "labors of love." But in between, he likes to work.
