Martin Scorsese Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“I'm sad to see celluloid go, there's no doubt. But, you know, nitrate went, by the way, in 1971. If you ever saw a nitrate print of a silent film and then saw an acetate print, you'd see a big difference, but nobody remembers anymore. The acetate print is what we have. Maybe. Now it's digital.”

“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.”

“I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.”

“On every film you suffer, but on some you really suffer.”

“When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.”

“I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening.”

“Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.”

“It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.”

“I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.”

“Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?”