307 Quotes by Martin Scorsese

There’s a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.

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

I don’t agree with everything he did in his life, but we’re dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.

I’m in a different chapter of my life. As time goes by and I grow older, I find that I need to just be quiet and think. There have been periods when I’ve locked myself away for days, but now it’s different – I’m married and we have a daughter who is in my office the whole time.

And as I’ve gotten older, I’ve had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

Vic Armstrong is, of course, a legend.

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.

If I’m not complaining, I’m not having a good time, hah hah!

Sometimes God picks you up and tells you, “You’ve been messing around now. You’re going to have to stop this, stop that, but I’ll give you another chance.” And you wonder why you’re given another chance. It must be for something; it must be to celebrate life.