Sharon Stone Salutes Martin Scorsese at the AFI Life Achievement Award

ladies and gentlemen Sharon Stone [Music] [Applause] [Music] good evening ladies and gentlemen we are here tonight to pay tribute to one of America's finest filmmakers to date Martin Scorsese has created 23 films I was lucky enough to have been in one of them back in 1976 I was a struggling actress in living in New York's East Village I was living on Elizabeth and Houston which is close to the Bowery two blocks from the neighborhood where Martin Scorsese grew up it was that year that I watched my neighborhood on the big screen in taxi driver I lived in Travis bickel's neighborhood with the lost souls and the misguided saviors I took a taxi to see this movie I took a subway home I moved out of the Lower East Side but Marty's films didn't for me every Scorsese film after that was a step back into my old neighborhood eventually Marty must have gotten restless because he shifted focus west to the casinos and the wiseguys of Las Vegas somewhere between the dunes and the sands I got really lucky and threw the role of a lifetime tonight I am so proud to be here as we all join together to honor Martin Scorsese with the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award not only for the films he has made but for the great films of others that he has helped to save but come on Marty do we really have to go all the way to the mat for sliver so what do we say after the first half of a career that has already taken him to the heights Martis films knocked down our doors pry open our souls and jolt us out of our complacency they span days of innocence the twilight of the good fellows and the neon nights of the casinos and whatever the place or our Marty has held to a simple philosophy in his movies stay with what you know [Applause]

Channel: American Film Institute

Views: 97,283

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Length: 2min 51sec (171 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 11 2010