#ten

I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#bad #bad mood #been #camera #comes

I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#days #films #financial #financial support #had

I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#cut #day #editing #film #grew

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

— Martin Scorsese

#element #existence #important #important element #most

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

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

— Martin Scorsese

#bottom #bottom line #going #i #line

The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#case #describe #fits #giant #instances

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

Like when I had long hair, you kind of got male attention from everything. But when you had short hair, it was a different kind of man that was attracted to you or I found coming up. ↗

— Ashley Scott

#attracted #coming #different #different kind #everything