307 Quotes by Martin Scorsese

I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don’t know how to light it. And I realize it’s because I didn’t grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.

The first element that I connected with was the emotion. Sorry, that’s how it goes.

We cannot burn Mick Jagger. We want the effect, but we can’t burn him.

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

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

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting.

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

I certainly wasn’t able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me – I saw too much of it among the people I knew.

I’m obsessed with New York. I just find it so remarkable. You really treasure this city when you go to different countries and you see that there is no mix. When you get back to the city, it’s such an exciting place.