Martin Scorsese Quotes


35 quotes:

"The reality is, if I don't do PR, I'm hurting the picture. And as many things as I did, that's as many things as I turned down."
Author: Scorsese Quotes Category: Reality Quotes
"In addition to celebrating great blues music, we always wanted to make sure that proceeds from this endeavor flowed back to the musicians and to efforts to keep this wonderful music alive."
Author: Scorsese Quotes Category: Music Quotes
"It's a very savage kind of humor, it comes out of a great deal of pain."
Author: Scorsese Quotes Category: Humorous Quotes
"Watching Dylan's eyes as he searches for these words, you see it all happening there,"
Author: Scorsese Quotes Category: Eyes Quotes
"He represents the American tradition of excellence and honesty and integrity. In a sense, he was the Steven Spielberg of his time."
Author: Scorsese Quotes Category: Excellence Quotes
"We've seen growing awareness of film preservation, yet the deterioration and eventual disappearance of films have not come to an end. There's still a race against the clock to save what we can at some point."
Author: Scorsese Quotes Category: Awareness Quotes
"What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people."
Author: Scorsese Quotes Category: American Director Quotes
"We couldn't have cared less about the government, especially the city government, which produced policemen who did nothing but take graft."
Author: Scorsese Quotes Category: American Director Quotes
"There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard."
Author: Scorsese Quotes Category: American Director Quotes
"On the one hand, you're the same person, but as you get older, you change somewhat, and you never know how it's going to affect your work."
Author: Scorsese Quotes Category: American Director Quotes
"More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down."
Author: Scorsese Quotes Category: American Director Quotes
"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."
Author: Scorsese Quotes Category: American Director Quotes
"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."
Author: Scorsese Quotes Category: American Director Quotes
"I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it."
Author: Scorsese Quotes Category: American Director Quotes
"I'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself."
Author: Scorsese Quotes Category: American Director Quotes
"I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures."
Author: Scorsese Quotes Category: American Director Quotes
"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."
Author: Scorsese Quotes Category: American Director Quotes
"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."
Author: Scorsese Quotes Category: American Director Quotes
"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."
Author: Scorsese Quotes Category: American Director Quotes
"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."
Author: Scorsese Quotes Category: American Director Quotes

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