"Marty was very upset," Scorsese's pal Steven Spielberg explained 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? They want me to cut all the blood spurting, they want me to cut the guy who loses his hand!'"

Apple TV+ released the first look at the Martin Scorsese documentary 'Mr. Scorsese,' a five-part documentary chronicling the life and career of the Oscar-winning director. In it, Scorsese discusses how he was pressured by Columbia Pictures to cut down the graphic violence in his 1976 neo-noir classic “Taxi Driver."