Martin Scorsese Quotes

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

Live, Kindness, Compassion

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

Movies, Matter, Cinema

What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people.
Martin Scorsese

Heart, Wanted, Leave

I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.
Martin Scorsese

Another, Film, Maybe

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
Martin Scorsese

Change, Person, Violence

People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor. And there are the threats, at the end - if you don't do it this way, you'll lose your box office; if you don't do it that way, you'll never get financed again... 35, 40 years of this, you get beat up.
Martin Scorsese

End, Someone, Else

There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.
Martin Scorsese

Money, Power, Fight

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.
Martin Scorsese

Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.
Martin Scorsese

Food, Live, Everything

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

God, Idea, Loved

I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on.
Martin Scorsese

Time, Around, Speak

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
Martin Scorsese

Love, History, Fall

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.
Martin Scorsese

Love, May, Sense

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

Understand, Universe, Off

It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.
Martin Scorsese

Political, Corruption, Crime

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.
Martin Scorsese

Life, Music, Popular

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 matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.
Martin Scorsese

Cannot, Between, Matter

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.
Martin Scorsese

Family, Father, Between

Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.
Martin Scorsese

Working, Alcohol, Class

All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.
Martin Scorsese

Life, Felt, Maybe

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.
Martin Scorsese

Experience, Working, Creative

As a child I had terrible asthma.
Martin Scorsese

Child, Terrible, Asthma

As you grow older, you change.
Martin Scorsese

Change, Older, Grow

Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.
Martin Scorsese

Age, Mind, Father

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.
Martin Scorsese

Truth, Death, Person

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Nationality: American

Born: November 17, 1942

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