Scorsese Quotes

Yeah, I turned down 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' and 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.' Can you believe it? With 'Alice,' I thought, 'Martin Scorsese. I wonder if he knows what he's doing?' Oh, man, what a mistake! Ellen Burstyn won an Oscar for that role. - Shirley MacLaine

Working with Scorsese is a dream come true and we're just having a ball, Just how he commands a set... But we are staying true to the original film. We shot in New York for a couple months, and then we've been in Boston the last three weeks, and then we're coming back to New York through the first week of September. So it's just a nice ride right now. - Anthony Anderson

Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it. - Cate Blanchett

What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people. - Martin Scorsese

We've seen growing awareness of film preservation, yet the deterioration and eventual disappearance of films have not come to an end. There's still a race against the clock to save what we can at some point. - Martin Scorsese

We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese. - Matt Stone

Watching Dylan's eyes as he searches for these words, you see it all happening there. - Martin Scorsese

This is the first present-day film I've made in 20 years. - Martin Scorsese

They're both such great directors. Ridley, of course, is very visual; he brings a world of visual creativity to the work, as well as great emotional truth and sincerity. And Scorsese is just great as the synapses flash in his mind - you just stand there and try to grab them! - John Logan