Martin Scorsese Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.”

“I'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself.”

“I'm re-energized by being around people who mean a lot to me.”

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

“Some of my films are known for the depiction of violence. I don't have anything to prove with that any more.”

“I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.”

“I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.”

“What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people.”

“I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me.”

“If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.”