Music Quotes by Martin Scorsese

The young people today are the 21st century.

— Martin Scorsese

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

Being independent... is being innovative out of inspiration as well as necessity.

— Martin Scorsese

I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite satisfied.

— Martin Scorsese

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

As a child I had terrible asthma.

— Martin Scorsese

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

— Martin Scorsese

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

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

— Martin Scorsese

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

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

I wish I could do everything in 3D.

— Martin Scorsese

“Movies touch our hearts and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places, they open doors…

— 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 know, you…

— Martin Scorsese

You can be born-again and believe in Jesus, believe in Jesus' ideas and try to live them out, without becoming totally intolerant of other…

— Martin Scorsese