Martin Scorsese Quotes
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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'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself.
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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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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 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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People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.
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The young people today are the 21st century.
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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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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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Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.
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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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Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.
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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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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 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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Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
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I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.
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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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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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Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.
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I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.
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I've always liked 3D.
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Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.