“Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.”
Music
“As you grow older, you change.”
ChangeAll Quotes by 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.'”
Experience“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“As you grow older, you change.”
Change“My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.”
Movies“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“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.”
Family“Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.”
Food“Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.”
Religion“I mean, music totally comes from your soul.”
Music“Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.”
Art“I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.”
Peace“The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.”
Music“There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.”
War“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.”
Alone“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“Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.”
Death“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.”
Experience“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“I don't like being in houses alone.”
Alone