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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Andrew Pulver

‘I hope God gives me the strength to make more movies’: Scorsese addresses retirement rumours

Martin Scorsese meets the media and fans in Turin.
Martin Scorsese meets the media and fans in Turin. Photograph: Alessandro Di Marco/EPA

Martin Scorsese has denied he is planning to retire, telling a press conference in Italy that he has “more films to make” after reports surfaced in September that two long-planned projects had been postponed.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Scorsese, 81, was speaking before an award ceremony in Turin and countered rumours he was no longer making films. “I’m not saying goodbye to cinema at all … I still have more films to make, and I hope God gives me the strength to make them.”

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