And he said, “Oh, you want to see it tonight?”
You have to see that film of John Ford.
I’ll do a screening for you.
Come see it.'
That’s how we started.
I think he liked me," Rossellini recalled to Vulture.
From there, Rossellini and Scorsese began dating and eventually wed.
It was Rossellini’s first marriage and Scorsese’s third.
“Mother was dying of cancer in London…” Rossellini told the Sun Sentinel.
“It’s strange that sometimes sorrow brings people together and sometimes it doesn’t.
You become closer if you’re solid, strong and capable.
But if you’re not and I was not it can separate you.
I panicked and decided it would be better not to be married.”
If I had been older, wiser and calmer, we might still be together."
However, there is one comment following their divorce that Scorsese probably shouldn’t have made.
“Martin and David are alike …
The men in my life are visionaries, a bit like my father,” she said.
“I feel extremely inspired by them, over-awed by their presence.”
