Martin Scorsese Quotes
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Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.
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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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All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.
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I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.
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I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.
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I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.
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Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.
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If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!
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As you grow older, you change.
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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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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 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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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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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 don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.
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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 think all of us, under certain circumstances, could be capable of some very despicable acts. And that's why, over the years, in my movies I've had characters who didn't care what people thought about them. We try to be as true to them as possible and maybe see part of ourselves in there that we may not like.
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Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.
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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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You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.
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It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.
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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.