Martin Scorsese Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.”

“Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.”

“People want to classify and say, 'OK, this is a gangster film.' 'This is a Western.' 'This is a... ' You know? It's easy to classify and it makes people feel comfortable, but it doesn't matter, it doesn't really matter.”

“It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.”

“There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.”

“I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.”

“If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!”

“I happen to like vampires more than zombies.”

“People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.”