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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There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.

Martin Scorsese

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

Martin Scorsese

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

Martin Scorsese

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

Martin Scorsese

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.

Martin Scorsese

The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.

Martin Scorsese

If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.

Martin Scorsese

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

Martin Scorsese

I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.

Martin Scorsese

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.

Martin Scorsese

I've been to North Africa many times.

Martin Scorsese

I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.

Martin Scorsese

You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore.

Martin Scorsese

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.

Martin Scorsese

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.

Martin Scorsese

Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.

Martin Scorsese

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?

Martin Scorsese

The young people today are the 21st century.

Martin Scorsese

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.

Martin Scorsese

I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.

Martin Scorsese

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

Martin Scorsese

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