#hi

I wish I could do everything in 3D. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#everything #i #i wish #wish

If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#basically #catastrophes #everything #headed #major

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#did #everything #family #gets #gods

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#father #forty #fourth #gangs #had

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#else #life #movies #nothing #religion

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#become #becoming #capone #city #crime

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. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#alone #anything #been #good #happening

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

— Martin Scorsese

#anything #depiction #films #i #known

My tattoo is a phoenix. I got the first when I was 16. I hid it for years. ↗

— Ashley Scott

#got #hid #i #phoenix #tattoo

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

#charles #corner #dickens #east #end