Quotes from Martin Scorsese

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

The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.

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

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

Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.

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 them alive.

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 must change. We must cultivate love and compassion.

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things." ~ 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.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

If you're looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel.

Because of the movies I make, people get nervous, because they think of me as difficult and angry. I am difficult and angry, but they don't expect a sense of humor. And the only thing that gets me through is a sense of humor.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

I had a fascination with 3D that goes back to the View-Master. I'd always dreamed of making a film in 3D. It's like a combination of theatre and film. There's something 3D gives to a movie that takes you to another land. Working with RealD creatively was a liberating experience. Thank you RealD for allowing us to make something like Hugo .

There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.

No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.

Martin: Chíngas a tu madre...