My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.
Martin ScorseseYou don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.
Martin ScorseseThe more you see, especially being young, the more you see the past, the more you can draw upon that and the more you can make the present and the future. It's how you process the past and at oftentimes in the picture, there are references to certain imagery from certain pictures, and certain novels.
Martin Scorsese