Jordan Belfort

But I go back to one thing about that.

Some, of course, it's lucky.

But it goes back to the hard work.

It was writing.

It was the skill, the time I put in to learn how to write, which allowed me to tell a story in a very compelling way that I wouldn't have been able to do otherwise.

No matter how good the story was, if I didn't know how to tell it the right way, structure it, and put together the words in a way that people would laugh and turn the page, it didn't matter how great the story was.

I served up to Leo on a silver platter.

And then he saw it and then he, of course, and there was Leo's and Leo was the one that drove it forward.

It was Leo.

Well, because he's such a... It was his passion project and he knew and it was... Leo believed in this so much, you know?

So he really gets the credit for what... Scorsese came in at the... He was there in the beginning and then was like, he was less...

You know, well, yeah, he just didn't, he always liked it, but it was like he had other, he had his passion project, which was, I think, what was that movie he made without the priests going in, whatever, it was a silence.

He was desperate to make this movie silent.

That was his passion project, right?

So, so he didn't, nothing he didn't like it, it just wasn't his passion.

But then once he started, here's what Leo said.

I ran, it was like maybe six months ago, Leo and I were in Cannes Film Festival.

Right?

We were on a boat together and we're having dinner.

He's sitting next to me at dinner, right?