Martin Scorsese Quotes
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I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.
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I mean, music totally comes from your soul.
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You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore.
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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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I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.
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There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.
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I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.
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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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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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We can't keep thinking in a limited way about what cinema is. We still don't know what cinema is. Maybe cinema could only really apply to the past or the first 100 years, when people actually went to a theater to see a film, you see?
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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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It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.
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Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
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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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You don't make pictures for Oscars.
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I've been to North Africa many times.
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Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.
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I'm an older generation.
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Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.
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I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.