[ sound of gunfire ] as far back as i can remember, i always wanted to be a gangster. goodfellas is like, fasten your seatbelts, i m going to kick the shit out of you for two and a half hours, and you re going to love it. there have been so many gangster movies, so many mob movies. is it really possible that in 1990 martin scorsese will be able to make a gangster movie that has something to say that hasn t already been said a million times? it s gonna be a good summer! and you watch the movie and you re like, yeah! see you later, thanks. what are you doing? you re leaving your car? he watches the car for me. we tried to capture the exuberance of that world. it s dangerous and threatening, but they re having a wonderful time. goodfellas was the nuts and bolts of the mob. it was the mob as a job. what do you do? what? what do you do? i m in construction. and the balance of these two families, of your mob family and your real f
i like that. singleton was nominated for two academy awards, best original screenplay and the youngest person ever nominated for best director. it was an era when a lot of people were playing attention to black film. there s this famous moment when the new york times magazine does this cover story. you really had for the first time a large collection of black filmmakers documenting what was going on in the culture. you got to be ready to go down, stand up, and die for that shit like blizzard did if you want some juice. blizzard? blizzard ain t sticking up for nothing now. that s because we wasn t there to back him up. if we was there if we was there, there would be five dead instead of one. he s a phenomenal actor. we had a similar vision of what we wanted to do as young men coming into this whole entertainment world together. my attitude was, i got my robert de niro, i got the dude i want to do multiple movies with. people don t realize how theatrical the gangster
you got to be ready to go down, stand up, and die for that shit like blizzard did if you want some juice. blizzard ain t sticking up for nothing now. that s because we wasn t there to back him up. if we was there, there would be five dead niggers instead of one. he s a phenomenal actor. we had a similar vision of what we wanted to do as young men coming into this whole entertainment world together. my attitude was, i got my robert de niro, i got the dude i want to do multiple movies with. people don t realize how theatrical the gangster rap thing was. tupac, ice-t, ice cube. they were also storytellers. so when it came time to go to hollywood, all of them were very convincing on screen. craig. craig. hold up. i gave him a heartbeat. man, that s what it s supposed to do. friday was one of those films that made me excited about being in the film industry.
up and die for that shit like blizzard did if you want some juice. blizzard? blizzard ain t sticking up for nothing now. that s because we wasn t there to back him up. if he was there there would be five instead of one. he was a phenomenal actor. we had a similar vision of what we wanted to do as young men coming into this whole entertainment world together. my attitude was, i got my robert de niro. i got the dude i want to do multiple movies with. people don t realize how theatrical the gangster rap thing was. tupac, ice-t, ice cube. they were also storytellers. when it came time for them to go to hollywood, they were all convincing on screen. craig. craig. hold up. i gave him a heartbeat. man, that s what it s supposed to do. it was one of those films that made me excited about being in the film industry.
young man coming into this entertainment world together. i got robert denarrinero. you don t realize how theatrical gangster rap thing was. tupac and ice cube. they re all story tellers. when it comes to go on the screen, they re all convincing. greggi? come on. it was one of those films made me excited to be in the fi film industry. at the time transitioning from music into film making. it was independent cinema and it went to do so well.