You talkin’ to him?

Martin Scorsese, 82, said he nearly threatened the movie studio over a disagreement about his 1976 classic “Taxi Driver.”

In a first-look clip from the October Apple TV+ documentary “Mr. Scorsese,” the legendary director opened up to Steven Spielberg about how Columbia Pictures was allegedly anxious about the movie’s disturbing content , and wanted him to cut some key materials. 9

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“Marty was very upset,” Spielberg, 78, recalled in the clip.

“I get a call at the office, and he said, ‘Steve, Steve, this is Marty. Can you come over to the house?'”

Scorsese was then shown saying, “They wanted me to cut all the blood spurting. They wanted me to cut the guy who loses the hand…” 9

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An unseen interviewer asked the “Goodfellas” director if he got a gun,

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