Martin Scorsese Quotes:
Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.
Martin Scorsese
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.
Martin Scorsese
Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you’re working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.
Martin Scorsese
Can a film really change anything? I mean, what was the last time? Maybe the Italian neo-realists, where they became the voice and the heart and the soul of Italy, a nation that had been destroyed. I don’t know.
Martin Scorsese
Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
Martin Scorsese
Hong Kong cinema is something you can’t duplicate anyway.
Martin Scorsese
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Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god… I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.
Martin Scorsese
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I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.
Martin Scorsese
I always say that I’ve been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that’s what comes out when you get me on camera.
Martin Scorsese
I can’t really envision a time when I’m not shooting something.
Martin Scorsese
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 the people I knew.
Martin Scorsese
I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.
Martin Scorsese
I happen to like vampires more than zombies.
Martin Scorsese
I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic – that’s who I am. And a part of what I know is there’s a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me.
Martin Scorsese
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.
Martin Scorsese
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
Martin Scorsese
I make different films now.
Martin Scorsese
I mean, music totally comes from your soul.
Martin Scorsese
I still dislike phones, yeah!
Martin Scorsese
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.
Martin Scorsese
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 financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema.
Martin Scorsese
If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we’re basically headed towards holograms.
Martin Scorsese
If I’m not complaining, I’m not having a good time, hah hah!
Martin Scorsese
If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that’s going faster and faster, we’re spinning off the edge of the universe.
Martin Scorsese
If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?
Martin Scorsese
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