Quotes By Martin Scorsese

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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 also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.