Quotes by Martin Scorsese

About Martin Scorsese:

Martin Charles Scorsese is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and film historian, whose career spans more than 45 years.
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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 ...

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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 s...

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I don't like being in houses alone.

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Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

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The most interesting of the classic movie genres to me are the indigenous ones: the Western, which was born on the Frontier, the Gangster Film, which originated in the East Coast cities, and the Musical, which was spawned by Broadway. They remind me ...

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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.

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

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There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

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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.

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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.

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I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.

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You don't make pictures for Oscars.

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

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

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

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I happen to like vampires more than zombies.

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I'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself.

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Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameMartin Scorsese
  • DescriptionAmerican film director, screenwriter, producer and actor
  • BornNovember 17, 1942
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Producer; Film Actor; Film Director; Screenwriter; Actor; Film Editor; Voice Actor
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Director; Legion Of Honour; Primetime Emmy Award; Directors Guild Of America Award; Light Of Truth Award