Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
- Martin Scorsese Quote

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

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 Quote

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 Quote

I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.
- Martin Scorsese Quote

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.
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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 Quote

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.
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I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.
- Martin Scorsese Quote

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

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 Quote

I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all.
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I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.
- Martin Scorsese Quote

I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.
- Martin Scorsese Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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

The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.
- Martin Scorsese Quote

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

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.
- Martin Scorsese Quote