I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs,… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with New York. I just find it so remarkable. You really treasure this city when you go to different countries… — 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
Well the thing is that the New York of 1846 to 1862 was very different from downtown New York now. Really nothing… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here… — 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
