Martin Scorsese Quotes

• 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

• Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

  Martin Scorsese

• More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.

  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

• 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

• 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

• I’m very phobic about flying, but I’m also drawn to it.

  Martin Scorsese

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

  Martin Scorsese

• I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes’ name on RKO Radio Pictures.

  Martin Scorsese

• I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all.

  Martin Scorsese

• I think there’s only one or two films where I’ve had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I’d had the money to shoot another ten days.

  Martin Scorsese

• I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening.

  Martin Scorsese

• I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

  Martin Scorsese

• I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

  Martin Scorsese

• I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

  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

• I don’t agree with everything he did in his life, but we’re dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.

  Martin Scorsese

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

  Martin Scorsese

• I certainly wasn’t able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me – I saw too much of it among the people I knew.

  Martin Scorsese

• I can’t really envision a time when I’m not shooting something.

  Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese (107)

Birth:	17th November, 1942
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Related Authors

• Lionel Richie
• Will Friedle
• Craig Ferguson
• Milo Ventimiglia
• Karl Pilkington
• Thomas Heywood
• Bob Monkhouse
• Rob Lowe
• Romeo Miller
• Anthony Daniels

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 18th November

Births

• 1976 - Sage Francis
• 1942 - Susan Sullivan
• 1836 - William Gilbert
• 1961 - Steven Moffat
• 1931 - Roberto Goizueta

Deaths

• 1889 - William Allingham
• 1962 - Niels Bohr
• 1909 - Renee Vivien
• 1952 - Paul Eluard
• 1969 - Joseph P. Kennedy