scorsese Quotes

“I don't like being in houses alone.”

“Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.”

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

“As you grow older, you change.”

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

“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.”

“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.'”

“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.”

“The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.”

“A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.”