Martin Scorsese Quotes

I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.
Martin Scorsese

Work, Great, Friends

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

Money, Two, Wish

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.
Martin Scorsese

Nothing, Big, Here

I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say... well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar.
Martin Scorsese

Life, Young, Energy

I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.
Martin Scorsese

Born, Name, Pictures

I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.
Martin Scorsese

Love, Saying, Light

I wish I could do everything in 3D.
Martin Scorsese

Everything, Wish

I'm an older generation.
Martin Scorsese

Older, Generation

I'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself.
Martin Scorsese

I'm re-energized by being around people who mean a lot to me.
Martin Scorsese

I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.
Martin Scorsese

Flying, Drawn, Phobic

I've always liked 3D.
Martin Scorsese

I've been to North Africa many times.
Martin Scorsese

Times, Africa, North

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.
Martin Scorsese

Movies, Few, Seen

If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.
Martin Scorsese

Everything, Along, Moves

If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!
Martin Scorsese

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.
Martin Scorsese

While, Story, Within

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

Food, Mother, Why

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.
Martin Scorsese

Family, Everything, Wants

It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know.
Martin Scorsese

Hard, Whether, Stuff

It's very good for me to remember what actors go through.
Martin Scorsese

Good, Through, Remember

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.
Martin Scorsese

Down, Personal, Films

Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?
Martin Scorsese

Important, Why, Vision

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.
Martin Scorsese

Father, Old, Sense

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

Life, Religion, Movies

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Born: November 17, 1942

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