Quotes By Martin Scorsese

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

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'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.

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 don't like being in houses alone.

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.

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

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

If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

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.'

Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them.

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

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.