Jordan Belfort
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And he goes, you know what?
I'm going to tell you this.
He goes, I have never seen Marty Scorsese as happy and carefree as when he was making The Wolf of Wall Street.
He was smiling every single day.
Like, you never...
And that made me happy to hear that.
And I think also it reflects in the movie, like how happy he was.
And he was like this light, you know, you know, he just had this, like this tone to it was light.
Listen, the script was amazing, but a lot can go wrong.
A lot can go wrong.
He just took that script and we polished it.
I polished every word.
Terry wrote an amazing script, but I worked myself.
at least 50 hours on that script also after Terry wrote it.
I wrote the book, and I didn't write this.
He wrote the script to get his credit, but I made sure every word was authentic, and Leo did too.
Leo painstakingly wrote every fucking word.
Oh, my God.
Leo, I spent a year with him.
He was so intense in getting this right.