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
The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.
Some of my films are known for the depiction of violence. I don't have anything to prove with that any more.
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.
Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
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.
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.
If you don’t like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don’t like cinema.
The only thing I really wanted was the freedom to be able to get what I want on film. I’ve dealt with the MPAA since 1973, so I know how to renegotiate and rework.
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that high?
I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.
I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.
When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.