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 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
Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
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 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
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 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 Image
Being independent... is being innovative out of inspiration as well as necessity. — 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 only really… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
