. >> francis coppola, marty scorsese, ron howard, and me began with roger.ollywood is unthinkable without roger. >> when i was making "grand theft auto," he said, ron, you keep doing a good job for me on this picture, and you'll never have to work for me again. and i guess i never did work for roger again. but i'm forever grateful for the opportunity he gave me. >> martin scorsese made a few small films in the late '60s and early '70s. people started to pay attention when he does "mean streets." >> i wanted to make films about an area where i grew up. i didn't really see organized crime. i was living in it. >> marty scorsese burst upon the scene with a kind of frightness, violence, and a restlessness to find the rhythms of the streets that don't feel anything like a movie. >> how much money you got? >> i ain't got nothing. >> "mean streets" came out of events that occurred to me and my friends associating with people that can be detrimental to you, yet there's love involved there. >> the first time you see robert de niro dancing around like everybody else yo