#or

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#cinema #doing #each #ever #how

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

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#cultures #each #know #more #other

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

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#life #music #my life #popular #popular music

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

The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound? ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#forward #how #i #images #important

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

— Martin Scorsese

#help #holocaust #ii #must #out

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

#experience #go #i #known #life