People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other. – Martin Scorsese
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
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 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
I don’t agree with everything he did in his life, but we’re dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak. – Martin Scorsese
My working-class Italian-American parents didn’t go to school, there were no books in the house. – Martin Scorsese
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
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. – Martin Scorsese
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
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
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
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
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
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
Very often I’ve known people who wouldn’t say a word to each other, but they’d go to see movies together and experience life that way. – Martin Scorsese
Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this. – Martin Scorsese
The term ‘giant’ is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits. – Martin Scorsese