307 Quotes by Martin Scorsese

You've got to love something enough to kill it.

My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.

Always get to the set or the location early, so that you can be all alone and draw your inspiration for the blocking and the setups in private and quiet. In one sense, it's about protecting yourself; in another sense, it's about always being open to surprise, even from the set, because there may be some detail that you hadn't noticed. I think this is crucial. There are many pictures that seem good in so many ways except one: They lack a sense of surprise, they've never left the page.

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.

A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentz's Bob Dylan in America is as thrilling and surprising as listening to a great Dylan song.

Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.

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

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

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