Martin Scorsese Quotes
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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 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 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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As a child I had terrible asthma.
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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'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've always liked 3D.
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The young people today are the 21st century.
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It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.
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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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Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
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Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.
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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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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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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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I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.
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I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.
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It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know.