10 Films Directors Regret Making

There's a strong argument to be made that Martin Scorsese is the single most consistent director still working today, and even though 2010's Shutter Island ultimately ranks on the lower end of the master filmmaker's output, it's still a rich, terrifically crafted thriller in its own right.

While promoting his recent film Killers of the Flower Moon, Scorsese spoke candidly about his career, and particularly the notion that, at 81 years of age and considering the large-scale pictures he likes to make, he probably only has one or two movies left in him.

Scorsese also surprisingly implied that, with his career now winding down, he regrets making Shutter Island in place of other projects he was more passionate about.

In a brilliant interview with GQ, he said that winning a long-belated Best Director Oscar for The Departed in 2007 encouraged him to make a frothy studio picture like Shutter Island, but that he "should have gone on probably to do Silence."

Silence is of course Scorsese's most famous passion project, which languished in development for 25 years before finally being produced in 2016 to rave reviews but a dismal box office.

It just goes to show, even the director with arguably the single most enviable filmography in history has misgivings about how it's all gone down.