Quotes By 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.

I don't like being in houses alone.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.