Quotes By Martin Scorsese

If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!

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.

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

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.

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.

On every film you suffer, but on some you really suffer.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

You don't make pictures for Oscars.

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.

I'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself.

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

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

I don't like being in houses alone.

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.'

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

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.

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

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.

Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them.

There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.

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.

Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.

You make a deal. You figure out how much sin you can live with.

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.

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.

You never know how much time you have left.

Some of my films are known for the depiction of violence. I don't have anything to prove with that any more.

The best I can do is to make a film every two years.

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

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