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,…

— Martin Scorsese

The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it…

— Martin Scorsese

During Prohibition, Atlantic City created the idea of the speakeasy, which turned into nightclubs and that extraordinary political complexity and corruption coming…

— Martin Scorsese

I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here…

— Martin Scorsese

People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor.…

— Martin Scorsese

DAYS THAT I'LL REMEMBER is a lovingly assembled and beautifully written collection of conversations, observations, and memories of music, friendship, and days…

— Martin Scorsese

Vertigo is probably my favourite Hitchcock film and probably one of my favourite films of all time. It's a film that I'm…

— Martin Scorsese

An interviewer once asked me to discuss my collaboration with Elmer Bernstein, and precisely why I chose to work with him. My…

— 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…

— Martin Scorsese

Sometimes God picks you up and tells you, "You've been messing around now. You're going to have to stop this, stop that,…

— Martin Scorsese

Actually, I was rock climbing on this film at 7 in the morning. It was quite unique! But in any event, the…

— Martin Scorsese

The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it,…

— Martin Scorsese

I'm obsessed with New York. I just find it so remarkable. You really treasure this city when you go to different countries…

— Martin Scorsese

If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a…

— Martin Scorsese

Rock & roll seemed to just come to us, on the radio and in the record stores. It became our music. .…

— 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…

— 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…

— Martin Scorsese