About Martin Scorsese: Martin Charles Scorsese is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and film historian, whose career spans more than 45 years.
I'm re-energized by being around people who mean a lot to me.
I still dislike phones, yeah!
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.
Some of my films are known for the depiction of violence. I don't have anything to prove with that any more.
If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.
It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know.
As a child I had terrible asthma.
People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor. And there are the threats, at the end - if you don't do it this way, you'll lose your box office; if you don't do it that w...
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.
Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them.
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.
Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through.
I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in t...
People want to classify and say, 'OK, this is a gangster film.' 'This is a Western.' 'This is a... ' You know? It's easy to classify and it makes people feel comfortable, but it doesn't matter, it doesn't really matter.
On every film you suffer, but on some you really suffer.
When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.
My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.
We can't keep thinking in a limited way about what cinema is. We still don't know what cinema is. Maybe cinema could only really apply to the past or the first 100 years, when people actually went to a theater to see a film, you see?
I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.
I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.
I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.
