Martin Scorsese Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
The problem with anger is that it's so consuming. You've got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point.
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.
On the one hand, you're the same person, but as you get older, you change somewhat, and you never know how it's going to affect your work.
Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them.
All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.
If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.
A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.
Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god ... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.
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.
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
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.
There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.
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.
Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that high?
Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.
I'm not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.
You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.
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.
Some of my films are known for the depiction of violence. I don't have anything to prove with that any more.
I've been thrown out of schools and fired from jobs. I don't want to work. I can honestly say I haven't done an honest day's work in my life.
You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.
Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.
Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.
You can be born-again and believe in Jesus, believe in Jesus' ideas and try to live them out, without becoming totally intolerant of other people.
You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.