Exclusive: Scorsese Speaks

The gargantuan fight scenes in his stunning, new epic Gangs of New York may have been painstakingly captured on good old celluloid, but Martin Scorsese's not one to turn a blind face to new technology, as Empire found out recently when we asked the veteran director for his views on digital film. While he insisted he feels "film still has more definition, more power" than its newfangled digital cousin, Scorsese acknowledged that he's more than interested in the new form. "I went to a little seminar that George Lucas gave with everybody you can think of in the industry on digital called Lessons in Digital," he explained in a manner only a possible when you're a world-renowned directorial genius. "Robert Rodriguez shot his two new films digitally and