Martin Scorsese Quotes
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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 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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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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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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It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.
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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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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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I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.
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As a child I had terrible asthma.
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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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I've always liked 3D.
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The young people today are the 21st century.
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Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
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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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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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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.
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I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy's eyes.
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I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.
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I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.
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Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.