Martin Scorsese Quotes

I'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself.

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.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

The problem with anger is that it's so consuming. You've got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point.

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

I wish I could do everything in 3D.

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.

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.

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

I make different films now.

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.

The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

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

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

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

The young people today are the 21st century.

When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.

Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.

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

If you don't like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don't like cinema.

It's often overlooked. It's labor. That's at the heart of # collaboration .

You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore.

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

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.

You've got to protect whatever creative talent you have left.

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

It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know.

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

It's very good for me to remember what actors go through.

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

The best I can do is to make a film every two years.

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.

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

On every film you suffer, but on some you really suffer.

I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.

Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.

Being independent ... is being innovative out of inspiration as well as necessity.

I happen to like vampires more than zombies.

Vic Armstrong is, of course, a legend

I've been to North Africa many times.

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.

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

If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!

I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.

I don't like being in houses alone.

Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.

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

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.

I accept all awards. I like them.

I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

If you're looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel.

You make a deal. You figure out how much sin you can live with.

You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

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.

You've got to love something enough to kill it.

It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.

I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.

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

I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.

You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.

You don't make pictures for Oscars.

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.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

The first element that I connected with was the emotion. Sorry, that's how it goes.

As you grow older, you change.

My films really have to be a part of a whole body of work that says something to me.

It is not the most brilliant that excel in film, but the most patient!

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out

We cannot burn Mick Jagger. We want the effect, but we can't burn him.

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

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

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.

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?

I've always liked 3D.

I mean, music totally comes from your soul.

The storyboard for me is the way to visualise the entire movie in advance,

I don't really see many people ... don't really go anywhere either.

I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy's eyes.

I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.

Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.

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.

I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

Always stay open to surprise.

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

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.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

I'm not a Hollywood director. I'm an in spite of Hollywood director.