THE GODFATHER PART I1
Why did it take so long for you and Scorsese to team up?
We both asked each other this question! You know, I had a relationship with [Sidney] Lumet and Marty had his relationship with Bob. I met Marty when I was a youngster, in around ’70 or ’71, and from time to time we’d run into each other and always got along. Throughout the years we had gotten very close to doing something together. We worked on a film years ago, about a painter], but it didn’t turn out.
