You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.
Martin ScorseseMy working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.
Martin ScorseseI always tell the younger filmmakers and students: Do it like the painters used to...Study they old masters. Enrich your palette. Expand the canvas. There's always so much more to learn.
Martin ScorseseIf youโre looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel.
Martin ScorseseOrson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is the greatest risk-taking of all time in film. I donโt think anything had even seen anything quite like it. The photography was also unlike anything weโd seen. The odd coldness of the filmmaker towards the character reflects his own egomania and power, and yet a powerful empathy for all of them--itโs very interesting. It still holds up, and itโs still shocking. It takes storytelling and throws it up in the air.
Martin Scorsese