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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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 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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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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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 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 can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.
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The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.
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Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.
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You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.
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As you grow older, you change.
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I make different films now.
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Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
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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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People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.
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I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.
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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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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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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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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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Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.
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I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.
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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.