Martin Scorsese Quotes

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Martin Scorsese

Profession : Director

Birth : November 17, 1942

If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.

Martin Scorsese

Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.

Martin Scorsese

The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.

Martin Scorsese

Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.

Martin Scorsese

I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs - is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema.

Martin Scorsese

Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.

Martin Scorsese

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

Martin Scorsese

Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.

Martin Scorsese

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

Martin Scorsese

I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.

Martin Scorsese

I'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself.

Martin Scorsese

It's very good for me to remember what actors go through.

Martin Scorsese

My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.

Martin Scorsese

I happen to like vampires more than zombies.

Martin Scorsese

I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on.

Martin Scorsese

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

Martin Scorsese

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

Martin Scorsese

You don't make pictures for Oscars.

Martin Scorsese

I think all of us, under certain circumstances, could be capable of some very despicable acts. And that's why, over the years, in my movies I've had characters who didn't care what people thought about them. We try to be as true to them as possible and maybe see part of ourselves in there that we may not like.

Martin Scorsese

There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.

Martin Scorsese