Quotes By Martin Scorsese

I wish I could do everything in 3D.

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

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 grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on.

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

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.

I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say... well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar.

I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.

People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor. And there are the threats, at the end - if you don't do it this way, you'll lose your box office; if you don't do it that way, you'll never get financed again... 35, 40 years of this, you get beat up.

I mean, music totally comes from your soul.

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

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

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

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

Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through.

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

If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.

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.

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

I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening.

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

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.

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.

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

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

You don't make pictures for Oscars.

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.

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

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

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