Quotes By Martin Scorsese

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.

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

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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

There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.

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

Well the thing is that the New York of 1846 to 1862 was very different from downtown New York now. Really nothing from that period still exists in New York.

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

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

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.

You never know how much time you have left.

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

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

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.

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

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

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

As you grow older, you change.

I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all.

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

As a child I had terrible asthma.

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.

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