Martin Scorsese Quotes, Thoughts and images

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

Always stay open to surprise.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.

There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.

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

When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.

The most important thing is the script.

If you don’t like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don’t like cinema.

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.

I'm not a Hollywood director. I'm an in spite of Hollywood director.

I wouldn't presume to be God's point of view.

The first element that I connected with was the emotion. Sorry, that's how it goes.

Being independent... is being innovative out of inspiration as well as necessity.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that high?

It is not the most brilliant that excel in film, but the most patient!

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

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

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!

I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite satisfied.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

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

You've got to love something enough to kill it.

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

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