Martin Scorsese Quotes
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There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.
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I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.
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If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.
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As you grow older, you change.
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Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.
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I don't really see a conflict between the church and the movies, the sacred and the profane...there are major differences, but I could also see great similarities...Both are places for people to come together and share.
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Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'
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The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.
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There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.
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I'm sad to see celluloid go, there's no doubt. But, you know, nitrate went, by the way, in 1971. If you ever saw a nitrate print of a silent film and then saw an acetate print, you'd see a big difference, but nobody remembers anymore. The acetate print is what we have. Maybe. Now it's digital.
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I make different films now.
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If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.
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I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.
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I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.
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I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say... well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar.
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Can a film really change anything? I mean, what was the last time? Maybe the Italian neo-realists, where they became the voice and the heart and the soul of Italy, a nation that had been destroyed. I don't know.
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I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.
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It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
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You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.
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And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.
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People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.
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If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!
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I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on.
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Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?