#si

I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#among #around #balance #believed #certainly

I mean I have a project that I have been wanting to make for quite a while now; and basically, it's a story of my parents growing up in the Lower East Side. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#been #east #east side #growing #growing up

I mean, music totally comes from your soul. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#i #mean #music #soul #totally

I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say... well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#energy #films #first #five #i

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

— Martin Scorsese

#basically #catastrophes #everything #headed #major

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

— Martin Scorsese

#element #existence #important #important element #most

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

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

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

The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#bottom #bottom line #going #i #line

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