Martin Scorsese : (9)

" 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. " - Martin Scorsese

" 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. " - Martin Scorsese

" 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. " - Martin Scorsese

" The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music. " - Martin Scorsese

" Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt. " - Martin Scorsese

" Very often I’ve known people who wouldn’t say a word to each other, but they’d go to see movies together and experience life that way. " - Martin Scorsese

" There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut. " - Martin Scorsese

" We can’t keep thinking in a limited way about what cinema is. We still don’t know what cinema is. Maybe cinema could only really apply to the past or the first 100 years, when people actually went to a theater to see a film, you see? " - Martin Scorsese

" Some of my films are known for the depiction of violence. I don’t have anything to prove with that any more. " - Martin Scorsese