If youโre looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel.
Martin ScorseseThere's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.
Martin ScorseseItโs also true that I might have never made Taxi Driver [1976] were it not for the success of Alice [Doesnโt Live Here Anymore, 1974]. The question of commercialism is a source of worry. Must one make a choice, must it be a matter of either setting your sights on winning an Academy Award and becoming a millionaire, or making only the movies you want to make and starving to death?
Martin ScorseseThat subject matter has never left me...The more you're in the material world, the more there is a tendency for a search for serenity and a need to not be distracted by physical elements that are around you.
Martin Scorsese