Feeling he can no longer get movies made in Hollywood, Martin Scorsese may soon be forced to make his glorious return to independent film.

"The question is how close to a personal film can I make in the Hollywood system today - and this [The Departed] is as close as I can get," admits Scorsese in a EW interview. "I don't know if there's room for me and the kind of picture I'd like to make anymore."

Scorsese's solution may be to return to independent low budget filmmaking, where he got his start.

"I may have to do them independently because I like to take risks, and how can you do that when a picture costs $200 million?" asks Scorsese. "There's a lot of money involved and you have a responsibility to the studio."