We can't keep thinking in a limited way about what cinema is. We still don't know what cinema is. Maybe cinema could… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
“Movies touch our hearts and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places, they… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Always get to the set or the location early, so that you can be all alone and draw your inspiration for the… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Oh, the foghorns... even the foghorns, they're all brass. It's something by Ingrid Marshal called Fog Tropes. It's not a sound effect.… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are. — 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
We’re face to face with images all the time in a way that we never have been before... Young people need to… — 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
I do prefer doing more takes. There's something very organic that comes from the first take, but certain things come out. More… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
The tone of the picture and the atmosphere was in my head and in my blood in a way once I'd decided… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
The storyboard for me is the way to visualise the entire movie in advance, — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it,… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
The only way I was able to defend myself was to be able to take punishment. Then I got a lot of… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience… — 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
I just - I kind of see it that way. I find the higher angles down. I do - look, you can… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Sam Fuller and 'Shock Corridor' can only be conjured as a mantra. 'Shock Corridor' is a classic work of art - it's… — 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
There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you. — 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