Quotes By Martin Scorsese

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

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.

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.

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.

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.

You never know how much time you have left.

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

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

There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I've always liked 3D.

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

What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people.

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.

The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.

I mean, music totally comes from your soul.

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

I happen to like vampires more than zombies.

I've been to North Africa many times.

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