Quotes

“The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?” Martin Scorsese

“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.” Martin Scorsese

“I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.” Martin Scorsese

“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?” Martin Scorsese

“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.” Martin Scorsese

“I'm an older generation.” Martin Scorsese

“Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'” Martin Scorsese

“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.” Martin Scorsese

“I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.” Martin Scorsese

“All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.” Martin Scorsese

“Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.” Martin Scorsese

“Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.” Martin Scorsese

“I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.” Martin Scorsese

“I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.” Martin Scorsese

“As you grow older, you change.” Martin Scorsese

“Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.” Martin Scorsese

“An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.” Jack Welch

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.” Jack Welch

“Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.” Jack Welch

“Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.” Jack Welch

“You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.” Jack Welch

“Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.” Jack Welch

“I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.” Jack Welch

“A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.” Jack Welch

“Change before you have to.” Jack Welch

“You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.” Jack Welch

“Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.” Jack Welch

“If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.” Jack Welch

“Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. Jack Welch Reality, Wish, Face Control your own destiny or someone else will.” Jack Welch

“Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.” Jack Welch