307 Quotes by Martin Scorsese

Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you’re in your 60s and you’re with the kid every day, you’re dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.

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

If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we’re basically headed towards holograms.

I’m not a Hollywood director. I’m an in spite of Hollywood director.

I don’t know how else to tell the story except to utilise that vocabulary: the rain, the darkness, the mansions, the framing, etc, the lighting and that sort of thing.

A lot of what I’m obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

I’m going to be 60, and I’m almost used to myself.

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.

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.