Martin Scorsese Quotes
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If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!
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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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Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?
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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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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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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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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'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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As a child I had terrible asthma.
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It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.
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I've always liked 3D.
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The young people today are the 21st century.
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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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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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Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through.
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I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.
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Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
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Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.
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When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.
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Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.
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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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Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.