307 Quotes by Martin Scorsese

[David Lean's] images stay with me forever. But what makes them memorable isn't necessarily their beauty. That's just good photography. It's the emotion behind those images that's meant the most to me over the years. It's the way David Lean can put feeling on film. The way he shows a whole landscape of the spirit. For me, that's the real geography of David Lean country. And that's why, in a David Lean movie, there's no such thing as an empty landscape.

The reality is, if I don't do PR, I'm hurting the picture. And as many things as I did, that's as many things as I turned down.

Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.

I always tell the younger filmmakers and students: Do it like the painters used to...Study they old masters. Enrich your palette. Expand the canvas. There's always so much more to learn.

Many of these names on the Walk of Fame bloom larger than life. They created the grammar of cinema.

It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know.

Vic Armstrong is, of course, a legend

Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.

Cause who's gonna figure the man out? We want an answer for everything, but he can't give you the answer! You know the man through his art, and he's still going. He doesn't know where he's gonna wind up. He's trying to get home. Like all of us, I guess.