Film Quotes by Martin Scorsese

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

— Martin Scorsese

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

— Martin Scorsese

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

— Martin Scorsese

I make different films now.

— 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

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 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

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

— Martin Scorsese

I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just…

— 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

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 always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and…

— 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

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 don't think there is any difference between fantasy and reality in the way these should be approached in a film. Of…

— 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

People want to classify and say, 'OK, this is a gangster film.' 'This is a Western.' 'This is a... ' You know?…

— Martin Scorsese

I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I…

— Martin Scorsese

When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number…

— 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

I was rather shaken by all the green trees. I always am. It gets me. I don't want to be funny about…

— Martin Scorsese

There is something particularly unique about the films of Hong Sang-soo...it's got to do with his masterful sense of storytelling... as the…

— Martin Scorsese

It’s also true that I might have never made Taxi Driver [1976] were it not for the success of Alice [Doesn’t Live…

— Martin Scorsese

I wish I could play music. I think I get as closeas possible with the editing of the films. Over the years…

— Martin Scorsese

“The most interesting of the classic movie genres to me are the indigenous ones: the Western, which was born on the Frontier,…

— 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

[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

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

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

— Martin Scorsese

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

— Martin Scorsese

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

— Martin Scorsese

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

— Martin Scorsese

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

— 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

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