38 Quotes By 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.
Martin Scorsese on money

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
Martin Scorsese on movies

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

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.
Martin Scorsese on movies

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.
Martin Scorsese on movies

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.
Martin Scorsese on music

I mean, music totally comes from your soul.
Martin Scorsese on music

The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.
Martin Scorsese on music

Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.
Martin Scorsese on nature

I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.
Martin Scorsese on peace

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 Scorsese on power

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 Scorsese on power

The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.
Martin Scorsese on relationship

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.
Martin Scorsese on relationship

Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
Martin Scorsese on religion

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

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.
Martin Scorsese on truth

There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
Martin Scorsese on war