Martin Scorsese Quotes

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.