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Martin Scorsese is one of the great filmmakers of all time.

Scorsese will only work with brilliant material. And everyone wants to work with him.

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

If Martin Scorsese calls, I am available. And then there the ones, well, you can just run down the list - any of those Oscar-nominated films, they have amazing directors across the board.

Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.

Mike Leigh and Ken Loach are the people I look up to. They are quality film-makers making interesting, controversial, ground-breaking movies with very little eye on the marketplace.

I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films.

I want to do films that challenge me. I want to do what the actors I look up to are doing - the Gary Oldmans and Daniel Day-Lewises.

Really, what I'm doing is an attempt to continue the best work of the people I adore: Francis Coppola and Scorsese and Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick and those amazing directors whose work I grew up with and loved.

I really want to work with Hugh Jackman and also Steven Spielberg.