Martin Scorsese

As you grow older, you change.

— Martin Scorsese

I've always liked 3D.

— Martin Scorsese

I'm an older generation.

— Martin Scorsese

I wish I could do everything in 3D.

— Martin Scorsese

Vic Armstrong is, of course, a legend

— Martin Scorsese

Always stay open to surprise.

— Martin Scorsese

When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.

— Martin Scorsese

I make different films now.

— Martin Scorsese

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

— Martin Scorsese

You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore.

— Martin Scorsese

If you don’t like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don’t like cinema.

— Martin Scorsese

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

— Martin Scorsese

You've got to protect whatever creative talent you have left.

— Martin Scorsese

I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy's eyes.

— Martin Scorsese

Being independent... is being innovative out of inspiration as well as necessity.

— Martin Scorsese

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

— Martin Scorsese

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

— Martin Scorsese

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

— Martin Scorsese

Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it…

— Martin Scorsese

I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.

— Martin Scorsese

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

Always get to the set or the location early, so that you can be all alone and draw your inspiration for the…

— Martin Scorsese

Some of my films are known for the depiction of violence. I don't have anything to prove with that any more.

— Martin Scorsese

You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.

— Martin Scorsese

As a kid I watched the Academy Awards on television and always wanted one - or several - like one of my…

— Martin Scorsese

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

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

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

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like…

— Martin Scorsese

I just - I kind of see it that way. I find the higher angles down. I do - look, you can…

— 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…

— Martin Scorsese

All I can do is try to do the best work I can. I need to work, I like to work... although…

— Martin Scorsese

[Kubrick] was unique in the sense that with each new film he redefined the medium and its possibilities. But he was more…

— Martin Scorsese

[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

“I had a fascination with 3D that goes back to the View-Master. I'd always dreamed of making a film in 3D. It's…

— Martin Scorsese

“I would have practically done all my films in 3D. There is something that 3D gives to the picture that takes you…

— Martin Scorsese

Orson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is the greatest…

— Martin Scorsese

I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's…

— Martin Scorsese

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

Michael Jackson was extraordinary. When we worked together on 'Bad,' I was in awe of his absolute mastery of movement on the…

— Martin Scorsese