Martin Scorsese Quotes
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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 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 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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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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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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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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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 make different films now.
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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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You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.
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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 can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.
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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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Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
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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 grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.
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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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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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Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.
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If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!