Writer: Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese has written or co-written a substantial part of his own filmography, beginning with Mean Streets, which is directly autobiographical about Little Italy and about a Catholic conscience that cannot be satisfied.

His scripts frequently use narration to tell the audience the outcome early, which converts the film from a question of what happens into a question of how it was allowed to. Goodfellas and Casino both open near the end.

He co-wrote The Last Temptation of Christ’s adaptation with Paul Schrader and has worked repeatedly with Jay Cocks and Nicholas Pileggi, adapting non-fiction into a first-person voice.