Cinema Quotes by Martin Scorsese

I make different films now.

— Martin Scorsese

The best I can do is to make a film every two years.

— Martin Scorsese

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

— 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

It is not the most brilliant that excel in film, but the most patient!

— Martin Scorsese

I'm not a Hollywood director. I'm an in spite of Hollywood director.

— Martin Scorsese

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

— Martin Scorsese

I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.

— Martin Scorsese

The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.

— Martin Scorsese

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

— Martin Scorsese

My films really have to be a part of a whole body of work that says something to me.

— Martin Scorsese

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the…

— Martin Scorsese

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you…

— Martin Scorsese

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

— Martin Scorsese

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

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

— 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

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

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

— 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

I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs…

— Martin Scorsese

And so you try your best. Sometimes you go in with one thing, with one desire and come out with something else.…

— Martin Scorsese

For me, the key image is the boat coming through the fog at the beginning. It's something I imagined and liked and…

— 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 think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that…

— Martin Scorsese

In truly great films - the ones that people need to make, the ones that start speaking through them, the ones that…

— 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

“My father took me to see this film in 1950, when I was eight years old. And I’ve never forgotten it. I…

— 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

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

— Martin Scorsese

If Kubrick had lived to see the opening of his final film, he obviously would have been disappointed by the hostile reactions.…

— Martin Scorsese

Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.

— Martin Scorsese

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

— 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

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

— Martin Scorsese

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.

— Martin Scorsese

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

— Martin Scorsese

If you’re looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel.

— Martin Scorsese

On every film you suffer, but on some you really suffer.

— Martin Scorsese

I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish…

— Martin Scorsese