List of Martin Scorsese Quotes

I Accept All Awards. I Like Them.

The Real Truth, I Thought, In Terms Of What Faith Is And What Christianity Is.

Alcohol Decimated The Working Class And So Many People.

I Do Know That Some Buddhists Are Able To Attain Peace Of Mind.

My Father Had This Mythological Sense Of The Old New York, And He Used To Tell Me Stories About These Old Gangs, Particularly The Forty Thieves In The Fourth Ward.

The Only Thing I Really Wanted Was The Freedom To Be Able To Get What I Want On Film. I’ve Dealt With The Mpaa Since 1973, So I Know How To Renegotiate And Rework.

One Of The Things Is That The Good Intentions Of Prohibition, From Reading Over The Years And From Becoming Obsessed With The Research Of Gangs In New York City, Seems To Have Allowed Crime Figures At The Time, Like Luciano, Capone, Torrio And Rothstein, To Organize To Become More Powerful, Which Pulled All The Way Through Until The '70s.

Vic Armstrong Is, Of Course, A Legend

I Would Ask: Given The Nature Of Free-market Capitalism - Where The Rule Is To Rise To The Top At All Costs - Is It Possible To Have A Financial Industry Hero? And By The Way, This Is Not A Pop-culture Trend We're Talking About. There Aren't Many Financial Heroes In Literature, Theater Or Cinema.

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.

As A Child I Had Terrible Asthma.

I'm Very Phobic About Flying, But I'm Also Drawn To It.

I've Been To North Africa Many Times.

More Personal Films, You Could Make Them, But Your Budgets Would Be Cut Down.

My Working-class Italian-american Parents Didn't Go To School, There Were No Books In The House.

An Interviewer Once Asked Me To Discuss My Collaboration With Elmer Bernstein, And Precisely Why I Chose To Work With Him. My First Thought Was: How Could I Not Work With Elmer, When I Had The Chance? Simply Put, He's The Best There Is-the Very Best.

Eradicating A Religion Of Kindness Is, I Think, A Terrible Thing For The Chinese To Attempt.

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.

Well, I Think In My Own Work The Subject Matter Usually Deals With Characters I Know, Aspects Of Myself, Friends Of Mine - That Sort Of Thing.

It’s Often Overlooked. It’s Labor. That’s At The Heart Of #‎ Collaboration .

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.

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.

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.

I Don't Really See A Conflict Between The Church And The Movies, The Sacred And The Profane...there Are Major Differences, But I Could Also See Great Similarities...both Are Places For People To Come Together And Share.