Martin Scorsese Quotes
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The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.
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I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.
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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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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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As you grow older, you change.
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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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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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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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I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.
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I make different films now.
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Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.
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The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.
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I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.
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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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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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Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
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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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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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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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Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.
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There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.
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As a child I had terrible asthma.
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You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.
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If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!