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

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?
Martin Scorsese

Food, Mother, Why

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

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

Political, Corruption, Crime

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, Tells

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

Love, History, Fall

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.
Martin Scorsese

Life, Music, Popular

Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.
Martin Scorsese

Sometimes, Again, Point

You don't make pictures for Oscars.
Martin Scorsese

Pictures, Oscars

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

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

Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
Martin Scorsese

Religion, Kindness, Terrible

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

Art, American, Film

Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.
Martin Scorsese

Cinema, Anyway, Duplicate

I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.
Martin Scorsese

Few, Times, Dalai

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

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Nationality: American

Born: November 17, 1942

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