About Martin Scorsese: Martin Charles Scorsese is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and film historian, whose career spans more than 45 years.
The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matt...
I'm sad to see celluloid go, there's no doubt. But, you know, nitrate went, by the way, in 1971. If you ever saw a nitrate print of a silent film and then saw an acetate print, you'd see a big difference, but nobody remembers anymore. The acetate pri...
I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening.
I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.
I mean, music totally comes from your soul.
The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
I think all of us, under certain circumstances, could be capable of some very despicable acts. And that's why, over the years, in my movies I've had characters who didn't care what people thought about them. We try to be as true to them as possible a...
I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.
Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
