Quotes By Martin Scorsese

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

As you grow older, you change.

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.