“The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.”
Music
“Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.”
ExperienceAll Quotes by Martin Scorsese
“I don't like being in houses alone.”
Alone“My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.”
Movies“Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.”
Death“Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.”
Food“A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.”
Family“Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.”
Art“Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.”
Religion“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.”
Money“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.”
Movies“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.”
Relationship“Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.”
Music“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.”
Age“As you grow older, you change.”
Change“Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.”
Nature“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.”
Money“I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.”
Peace“The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.”
Family“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.”
Movies“I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.”
History