Martin Scorsese Quotes

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Martin Scorsese

Profession : Director

Birth : November 17, 1942

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

You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore.

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

The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

Martin Scorsese

Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them.

Martin Scorsese

It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.

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 of shows like 'The Sopranos.'

Martin Scorsese

I'm re-energized by being around people who mean a lot to me.

Martin Scorsese

I don't like being in houses alone.

Martin Scorsese

I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.

Martin Scorsese

I mean I have a project that I have been wanting to make for quite a while now; and basically, it's a story of my parents growing up in the Lower East Side.

Martin Scorsese

I still dislike phones, yeah!

Martin Scorsese

I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me.

Martin Scorsese