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ShareMARRAKECH: MARRAKECH (Morocco): United States filmmaker Martin Scorsese said here on Sunday he plans to stop directing Hollywood blockbusters and focus on documentaries and short films.
The director of hit films like Raging Bull, Goodfellas and The Aviator was one of the honored guests at the Marrakech International Film Festival, which opened Friday and runs until November 19.
The director who turns 63 this week said at a press conference that he was getting old and did not want to spend his time making big pictures demanded by Hollywood studios.
He predicted that the film he would make in Japan next year, Silence, would be one of his last efforts for Hollywood. The movie will tell the story of Portuguese priests who go to Japan in the 17th century to convert the country to Christianity.
The American director said he wants to focus on documentaries like the one he did recently of US folk music legend Bob Dylan.
Scorsese, who said he liked films from different perspectives, saluted the work of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, who is also attending the festival.
