307 Quotes by Martin Scorsese

The best I can do is to make a film every two years.

You've got to protect whatever creative talent you have left.

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

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

I do prefer doing more takes. There's something very organic that comes from the first take, but certain things come out. More details come out, in the way another actor says something. It's always this investigative process. You come further and further to the truth, the more you escalate. I like to do a lot of takes. I have a hunger for it. I like to see what there is to discover in a scene, that hasn't been thought of.

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

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.

Oh, the foghorns... even the foghorns, they're all brass. It's something by Ingrid Marshal called Fog Tropes. It's not a sound effect. It's an actual piece of music. If you listen to what's going on after he has a flashback about his wife you'll hear... it sounds like the humpback whales in a way. But it's all music. And we use it again later, too.

You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore.