I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
If you don’t like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don’t like cinema. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
My films really have to be a part of a whole body of work that says something to me. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
If you’re looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I don't think there is any difference between fantasy and reality in the way these should be approached in a film. Of… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
There are movies that change the whole way in which films are made, like Klute, where Gordon Willis’s photography on the film… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
All I can do is try to do the best work I can. I need to work, I like to work... although… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Can a film really change anything? I mean, what was the last time? Maybe the Italian neo-realists, where they became the voice… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
[Kubrick] was unique in the sense that with each new film he redefined the medium and its possibilities. But he was more… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
We can't keep thinking in a limited way about what cinema is. We still don't know what cinema is. Maybe cinema could… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I don't really see a conflict between the church and the movies, the sacred and the profane...there are major differences, but I… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I'm sad to see celluloid go, there's no doubt. But, you know, nitrate went, by the way, in 1971. If you ever… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Basically, you make another movie, and another, and hopefully you feel good about every picture you make. And you say, 'My name… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
In truly great films - the ones that people need to make, the ones that start speaking through them, the ones that… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
[David Lean's] images stay with me forever. But what makes them memorable isn't necessarily their beauty. That's just good photography. It's the… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Orson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is the greatest… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
You have to remain strong. That's the kind of filmmaker I want to encourage. Orson Welles was the one who said, you… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
“The most interesting of the classic movie genres to me are the indigenous ones: the Western, which was born on the Frontier,… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
If Kubrick had lived to see the opening of his final film, he obviously would have been disappointed by the hostile reactions.… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
It is not the most brilliant that excel in film, but the most patient! — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share
Being independent... is being innovative out of inspiration as well as necessity. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share
We can't keep thinking in a limited way about what cinema is. We still don't know what cinema is. Maybe cinema could only really… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share
Rock & roll seemed to just come to us, on the radio and in the record stores. It became our music. . . But… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share
Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share
Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share
I've been extremely lucky to work with Elmer Bernstein, Howard Shore over the years, but I've always imagined films with my own scores, because… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share
People want to classify and say, 'OK, this is a gangster film.' 'This is a Western.' 'This is a... ' You know? It's easy… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share
“Movies touch our hearts and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places, they open doors… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share
You have to remain strong. That's the kind of filmmaker I want to encourage. Orson Welles was the one who said, you know, you… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share
You can be born-again and believe in Jesus, believe in Jesus' ideas and try to live them out, without becoming totally intolerant of other… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share
![“[Kubrick] was unique in the sense that with each new film he redefined the medium and its possibilities. But he was more than just a technical innovator. Like all visionaries, he spoke the truth. And no matter how comfortable we think we are with the truth, it always comes as a profound shock when…” quote by Martin Scorsese](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0c3/martin-scorsese-1663_comfortable_kubrick-was-unique-in-the-sense-that-wit_1653152.jpg)
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