Martin Scorsese Quotes
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I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.
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There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.
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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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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 go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.
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The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.
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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 make different films now.
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I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.
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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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Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.
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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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If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!
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I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.
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Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?
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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 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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Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
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I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.
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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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I'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself.
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I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.
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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.