3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and ‘long-form development’ that filmmakers didn’t have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like ‘The Sopranos.’
3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It’s the nature of the process.
3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.
3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese Death comes in a flash, and that’s the truth of it, the person’s gone in less than 24 frames of film.
3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.
3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese A lot of what I’m obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.
3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?
3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that’s just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.
3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese I’ve seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.
3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese Very often I’ve known people who wouldn’t say a word to each other, but they’d go to see movies together and experience life that way.
3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you’re working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.
3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese 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.
3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.
3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese 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.
3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.
3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
