Quotes

“I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.” Martin Scorsese

“There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.” Martin Scorsese

“I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.” Martin Scorsese

“I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.” Martin Scorsese

“I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.” Martin Scorsese

“I mean, music totally comes from your soul.” Martin Scorsese

“My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.” Martin Scorsese

“The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.” Martin Scorsese

“The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.” Martin Scorsese

“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.” Martin Scorsese

“Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.” Martin Scorsese

“I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.” Martin Scorsese

“I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.” Martin Scorsese

“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.” Martin Scorsese

“I'm re-energized by being around people who mean a lot to me.” Martin Scorsese

“If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.” Martin Scorsese

“More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.” Martin Scorsese

“Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?” Martin Scorsese

“Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.” Martin Scorsese

“Some of my films are known for the depiction of violence. I don't have anything to prove with that any more.” Martin Scorsese

“The best I can do is to make a film every two years.” Martin Scorsese

“The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.” Martin Scorsese

“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.” Martin Scorsese

“You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore.” Martin Scorsese

“I mean I have a project that I have been wanting to make for quite a while now; and basically, it's a story of my parents growing up in the Lower East Side.” Martin Scorsese

“I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.” Martin Scorsese

“It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.” Martin Scorsese

“The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.” Martin Scorsese

“I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.” Martin Scorsese

“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.” Martin Scorsese