00:01As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.
00:06Joe, what would you suggest to the high school students who are looking to be actors?
00:09My honest opinion, I think you should do something else.
00:12Martin Scorsese knows how to make a movie.
00:15I don't remember a time when he wasn't the director that everybody wanted to work with.
00:18He picked me out of nowhere. He saw something in me.
00:21He's made masterpieces.
00:23I auditioned all these amazing people.
00:25One of those great New York movies.
00:27I mean, you couldn't have made that movie anywhere else.
00:29It's iconic.
00:30Damn, there was the only black person in that movie.
00:32We just did whatever we did. Nothing was actually scripted.
00:34This is a world where women really don't have a big role.
00:38Very fun to play a character who doesn't give a shit.
00:40It's very Shakespearean.
00:42They live without paying the price for 99% of the things they do.
00:47These guys gave me a lot of attaboys and a lot of money.
00:50I used him as a witness in a series of prosecution.
00:52This is the safe that it's been in for about 30 years.
00:55I think you're a very handsome man and that you should be in movies.
00:57The problem was who was going to play Henry Hill.
01:00There was discussion with the studio.
01:02I was like, this is Ray Liotta from Something Wild.
01:06And then there's Bobby.
01:07He was like the Marlon Brando of the moment.
01:09Passion with the funny.
01:11And if you didn't know you were in something special then.
01:13I go, he's going to win the Academy Award.
01:15We went to the real Copa.
01:16He wanted to do a continuous steadicam shot.
01:19I look at it now. I was like, how the hell did I do that?
01:21I don't think I've ever seen a director that was so happy having his parents on the set.
01:26This was the actual car in Goodfellas.
01:28I love it because it's my mother's picture and Marty's mother, Katie.
01:32We had a terrible preview.
01:33They were like, you know, worried. They were very worried.
01:36My daughter, we go out to dinner. My daddy was in Goodfellas.
01:40We just made a great movie that people really love.
01:42My key memory is two words. Ray Liotta. Yeah.
01:46I can't imagine my life had Henry Hill not lived his.
01:50Good night.
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