Picture Quotes Actually, I was rock climbing on this film at 7 in the morning. It was quite unique! But in any event, the colour of the leaves disturbed me so we had to work on that. On the other hand, I didn't want to drench it in a kind of depressing tone. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes All I can do is try to do the best work I can. I need to work, I like to work... although I complain about it, but I do like it - and I just need to make the best film I can. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture 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. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes It is not the most brilliant that excel in film, but the most patient! —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Being independent... is being innovative out of inspiration as well as necessity. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes That subject matter has never left me...The more you're in the material world, the more there is a tendency for a search for serenity and a need to not be distracted by physical elements that are around you. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The tone of the picture and the atmosphere was in my head and in my blood in a way once I'd decided to make the picture. I had to find my way through that to choose, select, emphasise certain visual elements and sound. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Michael Jackson was extraordinary, When we worked together on 'Bad,' I was in awe of his absolute mastery of movement on the one hand, and of the music on the other. Every step he took was absolutely precise and fluid at the same time. It was like watching quicksilver in motion. He was wonderful to work with, an absolute professional at all times, and it really goes without saying... a true artist. It will be a while before I can get used to the idea that he's no longer with us. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes [Kubrick] was unique in the sense that with each new film he redefined the medium and its possibilities. But he was more than just a technical innovator. Like all visionaries, he spoke the truth. And no matter how comfortable we think we are with the truth, it always comes as a profound shock when we're forced to meet it face-to-face. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Always get to the set or the location early, so that you can be all alone and draw your inspiration for the blocking and the setups in private and quiet. In one sense, it's about protecting yourself; in another sense, it's about always being open to surprise, even from the set, because there may be some detail that you hadn't noticed. I think this is crucial. There are many pictures that seem good in so many ways except one: They lack a sense of surprise, they've never left the page. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I don't like being in houses alone. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say... well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes We cannot burn Mick Jagger. We want the effect, but we can't burn him. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The first element that I connected with was the emotion. Sorry, that's how it goes. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The problem with anger is that it's so consuming. You've got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes And so you try your best. Sometimes you go in with one thing, with one desire and come out with something else. In the case of The Aviator it was to create a Hollywood spectacle, but by about the second or third week of shooting you just want to literally survive it. Because don't forget, I also go through the editing process too, and when the film is released I have to talk about it. So, I take all of that very seriously. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The storyboard for me is the way to visualise the entire movie in advance, —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound? —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture 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. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite satisfied. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes DAYS THAT I'LL REMEMBER is a lovingly assembled and beautifully written collection of conversations, observations, and memories of music, friendship, and days gone by. It's good to be back again with John Lennon, his beloved Yoko Ono, and his trusted chronicler and friend Jonathan Cott. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes If Kubrick had lived to see the opening of his final film, he obviously would have been disappointed by the hostile reactions. But I'm sure that in the end he would have taken it with a grain of salt and moved on. That's the lot of all true visionaries, who don't see the use of working in the same vein as everyone else. Artists like Kubrick have minds expansive and dynamic enough to picture the world in motion, to comprehend not just where its been, but where it's going. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I've been extremely lucky to work with Elmer Bernstein, Howard Shore over the years, but I've always imagined films with my own scores, because I don't come from that world or that period of filmmaking. And so how could I make up my own score on a film like this where it isn't necessarily made up of popular music from the radio or the period; it isn't necessarily classical music. But what if it's modern symphonic music? —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I don't know how else to tell the story except to utilise that vocabulary: the rain, the darkness, the mansions, the framing, etc, the lighting and that sort of thing. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Rock & roll seemed to just come to us, on the radio and in the record stores. It became our music. . . But then we uncovered another, deeper level, the history behind rock and R&B, the music behind our music. All roads led to the source, which was the blues. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Oh, the foghorns... even the foghorns, they're all brass. It's something by Ingrid Marshal called Fog Tropes. It's not a sound effect. It's an actual piece of music. If you listen to what's going on after he has a flashback about his wife you'll hear... it sounds like the humpback whales in a way. But it's all music. And we use it again later, too. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Always stay open to surprise. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes It’s also true that I might have never made Taxi Driver [1976] were it not for the success of Alice [Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, 1974]. The question of commercialism is a source of worry. Must one make a choice, must it be a matter of either setting your sights on winning an Academy Award and becoming a millionaire, or making only the movies you want to make and starving to death? —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy's eyes. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I don't think there is any difference between fantasy and reality in the way these should be approached in a film. Of course if you live that way you are clinically insane. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes There are movies that change the whole way in which films are made, like Klute, where Gordon Willis’s photography on the film is so textured, and, they said, too dark. At first this was alarming to people, because they’re used to a certain way things are done within the studio system. And the studio is selling a product, so they were wary of people thinking that it’s too dark. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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. —Martin ScorseseWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this