Martin Scorsese Quotes

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Martin Scorsese

Profession : Director

Birth : November 17, 1942

I wish I could do everything in 3D.

Martin Scorsese

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

Martin Scorsese

I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.

Martin Scorsese

I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.

Martin Scorsese

I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy's eyes.

Martin Scorsese

Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?

Martin Scorsese

If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.

Martin Scorsese

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

Martin Scorsese

If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.

Martin Scorsese

The young people today are the 21st century.

Martin Scorsese

It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know.

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 opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.

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The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.

Martin Scorsese

Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.

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 filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.

Martin Scorsese

The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.

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

Martin Scorsese

As a child I had terrible asthma.

Martin Scorsese

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

Martin Scorsese

People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor. And there are the threats, at the end - if you don't do it this way, you'll lose your box office; if you don't do it that way, you'll never get financed again... 35, 40 years of this, you get beat up.

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