Martin Scorsese has directed more than 20 feature films, including some of the most beloved of the last half-century: Goodfellas , Taxi Driver , The Departed .

But now he says he can no longer go to watch movies in cinema theatres because he becomes too riled by the behaviour of his fellow cinema-goers.

The Guardian newspaper reports that Scorsese professed himself so distracted by all the chat and mobile phone behaviour around him, he could no longer concentrate on the events on the screen.

Scorsese was talking to US film critic Peter Travers who wrote on his blog The Travers Take:

“I asked the maestro why he doesn’t see movies in theatres any more and he went all raging bull about audiences who babble on phones during the movie, leave to order snacks and vats of soda, and ke

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