If you don’t like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don’t like cinema. — Martin Scorsese

It is not the most brilliant that excel in film, but the most patient! — Martin Scorsese

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be. — Martin Scorsese

On every film you suffer, but on some you really suffer. — Martin Scorsese

I didn’t realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film. — Martin Scorsese

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel. — Martin Scorsese

Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that high? — Martin Scorsese

The only thing I really wanted was the freedom to be able to get what I want on film. I’ve dealt with the MPAA since 1973, so I know how to renegotiate and rework. — Martin Scorsese

You want to get films made that express what you have to say. You try to do that, but it’s a very delicate balance. — Martin Scorsese

Death comes in a flash, and that’s the truth of it, the person’s gone in less than 24 frames of film. — Martin Scorsese

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

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

When I’m making a film, I’m the audience. — 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

The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family. — Martin Scorsese

I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese–box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you’re at the beginning. — Martin Scorsese

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. — 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

I wish I could do everything in 3D. — Martin Scorsese

Hong Kong cinema is something you can’t duplicate anyway. — Martin Scorsese

Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out. — 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

My whole life has been movies and religion. That’s it. Nothing else. — Martin Scorsese

All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere. — Martin Scorsese

I love movies–it’s my whole life, and that’s it. — Martin Scorsese

I’m not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas. — Martin Scorsese

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life. — Martin Scorsese

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. — Martin Scorsese

I’m trying not to let the anger and the violence that erupt take over my life. I guess it comes with the growing process, I don’t know. A little mellowing. — 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

You never know how much time you have left. — Martin Scorsese

There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old–time director. But I couldn’t do that. I’m not a pro. — Martin Scorsese

If I’m not complaining, I’m not having a good time, hah hah! — Martin Scorsese

Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and ‘long–form development’ that filmmakers didn’t have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like ‘The Sopranos.’ — 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

Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people. — Martin Scorsese

My working–class Italian–American parents didn’t go to school, there were no books in the house. — Martin Scorsese

The vampire thing always works for some reason. Always works. — Martin Scorsese

All I can do is try to do the best work I can. I need to work, I like to work… although I complain about it, but I do like it–and I just need to make the best film I can. — Martin Scorsese

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

My films really have to be a part of a whole body of work that says something to me. — Martin Scorsese

I’ve been thrown out of schools and fired from jobs. I don’t want to work. I can honestly say I haven’t done an honest day’s work in my life. — Martin Scorsese

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine–that sort of thing. — Martin Scorsese

You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it’s a monastery. — Martin Scorsese

On the one hand, you’re the same person, but as you get older, you change somewhat, and you never know how it’s going to affect your work. — Martin Scorsese

Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them. — Martin Scorsese

I can’t really envision a time when I’m not shooting something. — Martin Scorsese

I go through periods, usually when I’m editing and shooting, of seeing only old films. — Martin Scorsese

Sometimes when you’re heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don’t know if you could ever do it again. — Martin Scorsese