Mumbai, Oct. 6 -- Celebrated filmmaker Martin Scorsese has shared a surprising chapter from his teenage years when he once wanted to become a priest, before life took a different turn.

In Rebecca Miller's new Apple TV+ docuseries Mr. Scorsese, which premiered at the New York Film Festival over the weekend, the director opened up about his early years in a religious environment and his brief time studying for the priesthood.

Scorsese recalled that he was deeply moved when he attended Catholic Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City at the age of seven. The experience left such an impression that he later joined a preparatory seminary to study religion.

"There was a preparatory seminary, and that was on 85th Street somewhere. I ...