The director Martin Scorsese has said that he no longer watches films in theatres because he’s so appalled by the behaviour of his fellow cinemagoers.

Speaking to US film critic Peter Travers for his blog, The Travers Take , Scorsese reportedly explained that he found himself too distracted by the chat and mobile-phone disturbance from the audience to concentrate on the film.

Wrote Travers: “I asked the maestro why he doesn’t see movies in theatres any more and he went all raging bull about audiences who babble on phones during the movie, leave to order snacks and vats of soda, and keep up a noise level loud enough to drown out the actors.”

Travers then countered that Scorsese, 82, likely behaved in a similar way when he was younger. “‘Come on, Marty,’ I said, ‘we couldn’t keep our

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