His directorial debut was the feature film known as Who’s That Knocking at My Door which was released in the Chicago Film Festival the film got critic Roger Ebert upon seeing the movie exclaimed it was “a marvellous evocation of American city life, announcing the arrival of an important new director” and he couldn’t have been more correct as Scorsese is now one of the top directors in the film industry, and his movies have collectively earned around $1.9 Billion at the Box office. Scorsese was born on November 17 in 1942, in the Queens, New York City, he attended the New York University and notably, Scorsese did a bachelors in English Literature, and it was in his masters that he pursued Fine Arts in films from the Tisch Scool of the Arts in NYU. Scorsese’s movies usually involve the themes of Catholic concepts such as guilt and redemption, the identity of Italian-Americans and the world of crime with most of his films known for their characteristic depiction of violence, rock music, and profanity.
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