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Director Rebecca Miller looks back on spending time on Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York set<\/em>, years before she profiled the filmmaker in her new documentary Mr. Scorsese<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n “His attitude was not somebody who was complacent at all,” Miller says of the director, who had already been making movies for more than 25 years before Gangs of New York<\/em>‘s troubled production<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Mr. Scorsese<\/em> is streaming on Apple TV Oct. 17<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n One of Rebecca Miller<\/a>‘s first interactions with the subject of her new documentary, Martin Scorsese<\/a>, came on the set of one of his most tumultuous movie productions.<\/p>\n When filmmaker Miller, 63, spoke with PEOPLE recently about her new five-part Apple TV documentary series Mr. Scorsese<\/em><\/a>, she said that while she does not remember exactly when she met the legendary filmmaker, 82, she does recall watching him grapple with the chaos of a major blockbuster Hollywood film on the set of 2002’s Gangs of New York<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n “I was very rarely on set, but I was there this one day,” Miller tells PEOPLE. (The director has been married to Daniel Day-Lewis<\/a>, who starred in Gangs of New York<\/em>, since 1996, and they share two sons.) “They were shooting a big battle scene. I remember that was the first time I feel like I really met Marty because he was was so openly anxious about how the scene was gonna go and how he was shooting it, and if it was the right way.”<\/p>\n “And I was just thinking, ‘This is Martin Scorsese, and he is still so alive and so young,’ ” she adds. “His attitude was not somebody who was complacent at all. It was just vivid, and I remember that very well.”<\/p>\n