Welcome to the spiritual life. I'm Father Jim Martin. On this podcast, we reflect on how people experience God in their prayer and in their daily lives. And I am joined by my wonderful producer, Maggie Van Dorn. Maggie, good to be with you.

Good to be with you, Jim. And we have a real treat for our audience because this time we're speaking with Martin

Scorsese.

The Martin Scorsese?

Yes, who just so people know, everyone calls Marty.

So we're going to call him Marty from here on in.

Yes.

So Marty is widely recognized as one of the greatest directors in cinema history. He rose to

prominence in the 1970s with films such as Mean Streets, taxi driver, and Raging Ball.

And he's continued to shape the landscape of modern film with works like Goodfellas,

the departed, the Irishman, the Wolf of Wall Street, and Silence, which is how you got connected

to him, right, Jim? Yeah, I got a call however many years ago from his office called Sicalia,

and they had read the Jesuit guide to almost everything, one of my books, and asked for

advice on the script, you know, What would a judge would say and do?

And then they involved me in kind of reviewing the script.

And then I ended up directing Andrew Garfield

through the spiritual exercises and got to know Adam Driver

and Liam Neeson.

And I became friends with Marty and that whole crew.

But he's a great guy as people will soon find out if they don't already know.

Yeah.

And could I just ask you to give a quick synopsis of silence for maybe our listeners, viewers

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