307 Quotes by Martin Scorsese

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.

Could you double-check the envelope?

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 Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.

I still dislike phones, yeah!

The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

I don't like being in houses alone.

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.'

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.