Martin Scorsese Quotes
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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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There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
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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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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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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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Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?
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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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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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It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know.
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I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy's eyes.
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My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.
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Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
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Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.
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I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.
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As a child I had terrible asthma.
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I've been to North Africa many times.
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I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.
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I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.
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Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
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Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.
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Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.