Quotes by Martin Scorsese

“Violence is not the answer, it doesnt 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 ...”

“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 happine...”

“If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?”

“Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.”

“Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.”

“I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.”

“Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.”

“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.”

“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.”

“I'm sad to see celluloid go, there's no doubt. But, you know, nitrate went, by the way, in 1971. If you ever saw a nitrate print of a silent film and then saw an acetate print, you'd see a big diff...”

“I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.”

“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 t...”

“It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.”

“[Luchino] Visconti came from the Milanese branch of one of Europes oldest families, whose roots can be traced back to the early 13th century. He might have appeared as a character in one of his own...”

“The most interesting of the classic movie genres to me are the indigenous ones: the Western, which was born on the Frontier, the Gangster Film, which originated in the East Coast cities, and the Mu...”

“Movies touch our hearts and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places, they open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our life time, we need to keep t...”

“There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.”

“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...”

“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out”

“[Luchino] Visconti came from the Milanese branch of one of Europe’s oldest families, whose roots can be traced back to the early 13th century. He might have appeared as a character in one of his ow...”