Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and film historian, whose career spans more than 53 years. Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Sicilian-American identity, Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, machismo, modern crime, and gang conflict. Many of his films are also notable for their depiction of violence and liberal use of profanity...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth17 November 1942
CityQueens, NY
CountryUnited States of America
You never know how much time you have left.
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.
Can a film really change anything? I mean, what was the last time? Maybe the Italian neo-realists, where they became the voice and the heart and the soul of Italy, a nation that had been destroyed. I don't know.
I think all of us, under certain circumstances, could be capable of some very despicable acts. And that's why, over the years, in my movies I've had characters who didn't care what people thought about them. We try to be as true to them as possible and maybe see part of ourselves in there that we may not like.
It's very good for me to remember what actors go through.
I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.
The best I can do is to make a film every two years.
I mean I have a project that I have been wanting to make for quite a while now; and basically, it's a story of my parents growing up in the Lower East Side.
Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?
We couldn't have cared less about the government, especially the city government, which produced policemen who did nothing but take graft.
Watching Dylan's eyes as he searches for these words, you see it all happening there,
The reality is, if I don't do PR, I'm hurting the picture. And as many things as I did, that's as many things as I turned down.
I'm re-energized by being around people who mean a lot to me.
It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know.