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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I make different films now.

Martin Scorsese

I wish I could do everything in 3D.

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I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy's eyes.

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Well the thing is that the New York of 1846 to 1862 was very different from downtown New York now. Really nothing from that period still exists in New York.

Martin Scorsese

Movies touch our hearts and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places, they open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our life time, we need to keep them alive.

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Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion...

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

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As you grow older, you change.

Martin Scorsese

Can a film really change anything? I mean, what was the last time? Maybe the Italian neo-realists, where they became the voice and the heart and the soul of Italy, a nation that had been destroyed. I don't know.

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Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.

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Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

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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.

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If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

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

Martin Scorsese

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

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It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

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The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.

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Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'

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When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.

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I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

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Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

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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