Martin Scorsese Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The most important thing is the script.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Always stay open to surprise.

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

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