Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that… — 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
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 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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be. — 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
[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
My films really have to be a part of a whole body of work that says something to me. — 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
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 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
The only thing I really wanted was the freedom to be able to get what I want on film. I’ve dealt with… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I wish I could play music. I think I get as closeas possible with the editing of the films. Over the years… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
And so you try your best. Sometimes you go in with one thing, with one desire and come out with something else.… — 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
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
I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film. — 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