About Martin Scorsese: Martin Charles Scorsese is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and film historian, whose career spans more than 45 years.
I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.
One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothst...
If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!
I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.
It's very good for me to remember what actors go through.
Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.
All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.
I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say... well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar.
My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.
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.
I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.
You never know how much time you have left.
I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on.
I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among ...
I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.
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.
Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.
I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.
Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.
I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs - is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many fin...
Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
