Martin Scorsese quotes

Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.

The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.

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

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

When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

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

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.

I don't like being in houses alone.

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

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

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.

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.