Martin Scorsese Quotes & Sayings (Page 10)

“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 mean I have a project that I have been wanting to make for quite a while now; and basically, it's a story of my parents growing up in the Lower East Side.”

“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.”

“I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.”

“I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.”

“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.”

“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.'”

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”