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I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.

Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.

Martin Scorsese

Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.

Martin Scorsese

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 Scorsese

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.

Martin Scorsese

I mean, music totally comes from your soul.

Martin Scorsese

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

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

Martin Scorsese

You don't make pictures for Oscars.

Martin Scorsese

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 Scorsese

My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.

Martin Scorsese

I make different films now.

Martin Scorsese

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

Martin Scorsese

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

Martin Scorsese

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

Martin Scorsese

I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.

Martin Scorsese

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.

Martin Scorsese

Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through.

Martin Scorsese

I'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself.

Martin Scorsese

I mean I have a project that I have been wanting to make for quite a while now; and basically, it's a story of my parents growing up in the Lower East Side.

Martin Scorsese

I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy's eyes.

Martin Scorsese

The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.

Martin Scorsese

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

Martin Scorsese

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

Martin Scorsese

I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.

Martin Scorsese

Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.

Martin Scorsese

I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.

Martin Scorsese

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.

Martin Scorsese

I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.

Martin Scorsese

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.

Martin Scorsese

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 Scorsese

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

Martin Scorsese

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

I've been to North Africa many times.

Martin Scorsese

I think all of us, under certain circumstances, could be capable of some very despicable acts. And that's why, over the years, in my movies I've had characters who didn't care what people thought about them. We try to be as true to them as possible and maybe see part of ourselves in there that we may not like.

Martin Scorsese

Some of my films are known for the depiction of violence. I don't have anything to prove with that any more.

Martin Scorsese

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

Martin Scorsese