Quotes By Martin Scorsese

I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

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

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

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.

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

The young people today are the 21st century.

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

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.

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

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

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.

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

I still dislike phones, yeah!

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

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

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.

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

I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.

I mean I have a project that I have been wanting to make for quite a while now; and basically, it's a story of my parents growing up in the Lower East Side.

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

Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.

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

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

I'm an older generation.

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.

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.

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