Martin Scorsese Was Too SICK to Go Outside, Then Became Cinema's Greatest Director

A sickly boy too weak to play outside grew up to make the toughest films in America.

Martin Scorsese had asthma so severe he couldn't run, play sports, or join the other kids.

So he sat at his window in Little Italy, watching the streets that would fill his films.

His family kept taking him to the movies, and the screen quietly became his whole world.

He broke out with gritty New York stories soaked in violence, guilt, and Catholic faith.

But by the late 1970s, drugs nearly killed him, and he collapsed bleeding in a hospital.

A friend stood at his hospital bedside and dared him to make just one more film.

That film was Raging Bull, now considered one of the greatest ever made.

For decades the Oscars passed him over, nomination after nomination, never once a win.

Finally, with The Departed, the kid from the window won Best Director at last.

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