Jordan Belfort

I picked him in Scorsese.

And this is where I would say like the hard work of writing.

So I spent a year teaching myself to write.

What really happened is I came up with a style of writing where I took what was nonfiction and wrote it like fiction.

And my book reads like a novel, but it's true, okay?

It's true, but it reads like a novel, which is different from almost every memoir that you would read because usually the person has a ghostwriter.

Okay.

Or if they write themselves, they didn't spend the amount of time.

I taught myself to write as if I was a novelist, like Tom, because Tom was a novelist.

He started off as nonfiction.

And by the way, that's the beauty of Bonfire is he wrote, you know, nonfiction, but it was almost like it was, he wrote fiction.

It was fiction Bonfire.

But he wrote it like nonfiction.

Like he did so much research into stuff, right?

So it was so believable.

I did the opposite using his style.

I wrote what was nonfiction and it read like fiction.

So, and I spent so much time and I did do a very good job writing that book.

Everyone loves that book.

And so when Leo read the book, he was like, holy shit.