80 Scorsese Quotes
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Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it. — Cate Blanchett
This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus. — Krzysztof Kieslowski
Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles. — Alejandro Jodorowsky
Mr. Hitchcock taught me everything about cinema. It was thanks to him that I understood that murder scenes should be shot like love scenes and love scenes like murder scenes. — Grace Kelly
The best director is the one you don't see. — Billy Wilder
Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear. — David Foster Wallace
When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980. — Jacques Rivette
I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move! — Howard Hawks
For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident. — Sidney Lumet
You see in Once Upon a Time in the West the whole film moves around her [Claudia Cardinale]. If you take her out, there's no more film. She's the central motor of the entire happening. — Sergio Leone
I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them. — Christopher Nolan
I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman. — Andrei Tarkovsky
When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process. — Oliver Stone
All my movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds. — David Lynch
Film lovers are sick people. — Francois Truffaut
Short Scorsese Quotes
- Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies. — Owen Wilson
- Tarantino and Jackson is like Scorsese and DeNiro, and their silent communication. — Walton Goggins
- I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting. — Stanley Tucci
- Snoop Scorsese, that's my director name. — Snoop Dogg
- When Scorsese shoots a violent scene, it's very uncomfortable - it's not like watching 'Rambo.' — Gerard Way
- Any time someone says you have an opportunity to work with Martin Scorsese you jump at the chance. — Mark Wahlberg
- We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese. — Matt Stone
- Martin Scorsese was very much the actor's director. We were all very in awe of Martin Scorsese. — John Heard
- I'd rather go for Scorsese and De Niro. I just think he was so much better. — Nicole Holofcener
- It's tough to get any film made, even if you're Martin Scorsese. It's just hard to get films made. — Amy Sherman-Palladino
Martin Scorsese Quotes
I think they [Martin Scorsese, Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra] liked my honesty. My personality. For that, they always treated me great. I, in turn, treated them great. No secret about it. My being who I am - that is that. — Don Rickles
I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to it. Except maybe having kids. — Jonah Hill
Ooh, I'd love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something... I don't know! — Cara Delevingne
[Martin] Scorsese says one of the great things he loves about it is how Mark can't get the right shot and he's killing people because he can't get the right shot. It's an example of what film-makers are like. — Thelma Schoonmaker
I was kind of a little disappointed when they started building a competition between Marty (Martin Scorsese) and me. I have the greatest respect for him and all the films he's done over the years. — Clint Eastwood
I would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don’t know if I’ll live that long. — Meryl Streep
I always remember what Bob Dylan said in that [Martin] Scorsese documentary on him. When he was asked about Joan Baez's complaints about the way he treated her when they were together, Dylan laughed and said, "It's impossible to be in love and wise at the same time." — Richard Gere
Working on 'The Last Waltz' introduced me to Martin Scorsese, and I had been a movie bug since I was a young kid. — Robbie Robertson
If Martin Scorsese calls, I am available. And then there the ones, well, you can just run down the list - any of those Oscar-nominated films, they have amazing directors across the board. — Timothy Olyphant
I'm, like, y'know, I didn't have a problem doing one scene in Dude, Where's My Car? I'm certainly not going to have a problem doing one scene in a [Martin] Scorsese movie! — Brent Spiner
People Writing About Scorsese
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Cate Blanchett |
165 | 559 |
 Krzysztof Kieslowski |
36 | 423 |
 Alejandro Jodorowsky |
82 | 562 |
 Grace Kelly |
44 | 3131 |
 Billy Wilder |
65 | 843 |
 David Foster Wallace |
315 | 1175 |
More Scorsese Quotes
In the the late seventies and early eighties, I played background roles in thirty movies... Woody Allen movies, Scorsese films, you name it. Whatever was being shot in New York, I was doing stand-in and background work because I wanted to be close to the camera; I wanted to see what was going on. — Tobin Bell
Scorsese, Spielberg, Tarantino, Peter Jackson - all of you: I'm here, I'm ready. I can do funny faces, I can sing, I can dance. Hire me! — Cara Delevingne
Marty [Scorsese] knows that when an improvised moment comes out of a real situation, it's gonna have more life and more going on than anything you can imagine and that's how the character can become the story — Leonardo DiCaprio
I've always been drawn to a certain kind of dark aesthetic in cinema and in film, to what's abjected or considered abject. I've been tremendously influenced by noirish cinema whether that's Von Sternberg or Scorsese in the 70s or Lynch, etc. — Anton Yelchin
Music was a big thing for me growing up and Scorsese and Tarantino both use music brilliantly in movies. They're probably two of the best at using music. — Ed Speleers
My experience in work, even going to work with Scorsese, is that people always think there's some magic trick. There's no magic trick. The people who are really good at what they do do simple things really, really well. — Matthew McConaughey
I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are. You know if you think about Scorsese back in the day when he was making Taxi Driver, or Coppola or Frankenheimer, Sidney Lumet, they're making films where you witness violence in a real way. — Antoine Fuqua
It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese. — Jason Patric
Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility. — Bret Easton Ellis
I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it. — Cate Blanchett
I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films. — Anthony Michael Hall
In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius. — Alex Cox
Leo couldn't deliver Mr. Martin Scorsese his Oscar with 'The Aviator', but I will go on record to say I will do so in 'The Departed'. — Anthony Anderson
Griffin Dunne and I were both terrified that Martin Scorsese didn't think we were very good - and if he didn't think we were very good, that was it. That was the end of the line. If Martin Scorsese thinks you stink, you stink. — John Heard
Tupac Shakur is something that, of course I want to make the Tupac movie, I love Tupac, but when that movie was announced, we didn't even have a script yet. It was just being written. People announce things too soon. If you go to any filmmaker - Clint Eastwood, Oliver Stone, Martin Scorsese, Ben Affleck, Michael Mann - you go in their offices and there are scripts everywhere and there's about four or five of them you really want to make. — Antoine Fuqua
I love Martin Scorsese, but there's another indication of what The Oscars are all about. They've ignored Martin Scorsese for going on 35 years now, and I wouldn't be surprised if they passed him over again. He'll get one of The Oscars they give you at the end of your life because they feel guilty for never giving you an Oscar. — Joe Bob Briggs
Martin Scorsese was one of the few who had not been an assistant. Most of the guys had been an assistant and worked their way up. But I had seen an underground picture he had made in New York, a black-and-white film. I had done a picture for American International, about a Southern woman bandit, the Ma Barker story, and it was very successful, and I had left to start my own company, and they wanted me to make another one. — Roger Corman
[Martin] Scorsese probably could have directed Schindler's List and [Steven] Spielberg probably could have directed Goodfellas. But it's as much to do with the difference in culture as it is with race. — Denzel Washington
[Martin Scorsese ] basically works just like any other director. You work the scene, you try to find what's best in it and make it work. That's what it was like. — Brent Spiner
It was a fabulous experience shooting [in the Aviator], working with Leo [DiCaprio] and Danny Huston in the scene. It was great. I think what was most eye-opening about it was that [Martin] Scorsese was just like any good director you work with. — Brent Spiner
John Logan is maybe the No. 1 screenwriter in the world today, not to mention that he won a Tony for Best Play for Red. So he may just be the best writer period right now. He wrote The Aviator, and I was in New York doing a play, and he asked if they would see me for the film, just meet with me. 'Cause that's what Martin Scorsese does. — Brent Spiner
I had this whole issue of doing a crime film in the 2010s. The genre's been mined very, very heavily. Post-Scorsese, post-Tarantino, post-Guy Ritchie, what do you do? I wasn't attracted to pulp so much as all of a sudden I had a pulp problem. I had to find a way to make this interesting, because there's a lot of crime films that come out on VOD every week, and a number of these star Nicolas Cage. — Paul Schrader
There would be brilliant songs, but, as [Bob] Dylan admitted on the recent Martin Scorsese documentary about him (No Direction Home), the specific muse that inspired "It's Alright Ma" would not return. — Bob Dylan
I'm trying to steal from everybody. So yeah, there's cats that I'm personally affiliated with - Carl Franklin, Paul Thomas Anderson - and others that I don't know personally but their work I'm a big admirer of, like Martin Scorsese. But I'm hoping to come up with a language that is mine, that's specific to my take on this material. — Don Cheadle
I don't really watch too many remakes. I saw Scorsese's version of Cape Fear, which was good. That was a good remake. — Sune Rose Wagner
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