Memory works by compartmentalization. Our minds often like to reduce data to patterns, and those patterns get compacted into simple categories. And so for many people
Martin Scorsese, despite having made
The Last Waltz,
Kundun and
The Aviator, is just a director of New York gangster movies. (Maybe with a slight detour up to Boston for
The Departed.)
But those who really know Scorsese's career know that the path he has taken ...