I'm trying to find out what the hell we - who we are. Martin Scorsese More Quotes by Martin Scorsese More Quotes From Martin Scorsese There are movies that change the whole way in which films are made, like Klute, where Gordon Willis’s photography on the film is so textured, and, they said, too dark. Martin Scorsese photographydarkthinking Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life. Martin Scorsese popular-musicsoundtracks One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. Martin Scorsese powerfulreadingnew-york We cannot burn Mick Jagger. We want the effect, but we can't burn him. Martin Scorsese effectsjaggerwant As you grow older, you change. Martin Scorsese grows I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening. Martin Scorsese maylooksideas It’s often overlooked. It’s labor. That’s at the heart of # collaboration . Martin Scorsese collaborationlaborheart People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor. And there are the threats, at the end - if you don't do it this way, you'll lose your box office; if you don't do it that way, you'll never get financed again... 35, 40 years of this, you get beat up. Martin Scorsese officepeopleyears I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs - is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema. Martin Scorsese trendsherotalking I don't think there is any difference between fantasy and reality in the way these should be approached in a film. Of course if you live that way you are clinically insane. Martin Scorsese differencesrealitythinking I've been to North Africa many times. Martin Scorsese north-africa I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it. Martin Scorsese flying Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience. Martin Scorsese creativematterwonderful Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them. Martin Scorsese choppingzombieshooting I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on. Martin Scorsese italianrunningkids I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures. Martin Scorsese bornradionames I still dislike phones, yeah! Martin Scorsese yeahphonesstills [Action's] a Western thing. We think of the hero going into battle, rebelling against a government or an oppressor, but [in KUNDUN] action is nonaction or what appears to be nonaction. That's a hard concept for Western audiences. . . . We wanted to show a kind of moral action, a spiritual action, an emotional action. Some people will pick up on it; some won't. Martin Scorsese emotionalherospiritual 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 lensestryingyears I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work. Martin Scorsese categoriesfilmmakerthinking
