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
We can't keep thinking in a limited way about what cinema is. We still don't know what cinema is. Maybe cinema could only really apply to the past or the first 100 years, when people actually went to a theater to see a film, you see?
You make a deal. You figure out how much sin you can live with.
Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.
It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know.
I'm re-energized by being around people who mean a lot to me.
This is the first present-day film I've made in 20 years,
I think editors know so much about how to tell a story with pictures, ... It's such an important facet of becoming a film director to know how footage can be controlled and manipulated. Every one of his films betrayed that wonderful beginning he had.
Just when people think he gives you one thing, ... he gives you another.
He meant so much to so many different people,
His films became increasingly fascinating to me because of the editing style, a very crisp, clear style of editing that kind of points the audience toward where to look in a scene.
If one of the actors from your film is not talking on that screen in the middle of the night, there will be five other actors from five different films talking.
Michael Jackson was extraordinary, When we worked together on 'Bad,' I was in awe of his absolute mastery of movement on the one hand, and of the music on the other. Every step he took was absolutely precise and fluid at the same time. It was like watching quicksilver in motion. He was wonderful to work with, an absolute professional at all times, and it really goes without saying... a true artist. It will be a while before I can get used to the idea that he's no longer with us.
Being independent... is being innovative out of inspiration as well as necessity.
If you don’t like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don’t like cinema.