![]() ![]() “, they were all complaining about Jesus, that he hangs out with publicans and tax men and whores,” explains the director, “and the man says, ‘All I know is, I was blind and now I can see.’ “ When Scorsese emerged from that dark night of the soul, like the blind man in the Bible, he felt the scales were removed from his eyes. ![]() And even if it wasn’t for a reason, I had to make good use of it.” But if I prayed, it was just to get through those 10 days and nights. All these years later, “I was stunned by the realization of my naivete and denial,” he says. ”Īlone in that hospital, occasionally visited by such friends as Robert De Niro, the director thought back to his roots as a Catholic growing up in New York’s Little Italy, the son of two garment workers, a boy who had fallen under the influence of a charismatic priest and at one point considered becoming a seminarian, only to be thrown out of the preparatory seminary because he never could make it to Mass on time. ![]() I was kept in a hospital for 10 days and nights, and they took care of me, these doctors, and I became aware of not wanting to die and not wasting. It wasn’t only drug-induced - asthma had a lot to do with it. “Misuse of normal medications in combinations my body reacted in strange ways. “A number of things had happened,” he continues. ![]()
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