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Top 120 Martin Scorsese Quotes (2025 Update)

Martin Scorsese Quote: “Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “There’s no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “The most important thing is the script.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “Movies touch our hearts, and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places. They open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our lifetime. We need to keep them alive.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “My whole life has been movies and religion. That’s it. Nothing else.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “When I’m making a film, I’m the audience.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “Could you double-check the envelope?”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “You’ve got to love something enough to kill it.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “Always stay open to surprise.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “It is not the most brilliant that excel in film, but the most patient!”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “I always say that I’ve been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that’s what comes out when you get me on camera.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “You’ve got to protect whatever creative talent you have left.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “Sometimes God picks you up and tells you, “You’ve been messing around now. You’re going to have to stop this, stop that, but I’ll give you another chance.” And you wonder why you’re given another chance. It must be for something; it must be to celebrate life.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “I’ve seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “You don’t make pictures for Oscars.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “I’m not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that high?”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you’re working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “And as I’ve gotten older, I’ve had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “I love movies – it’s my whole life, and that’s it.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you’re at the beginning.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “Because of the movies I make, people get nervous. They think of me as difficult and angry. I am difficult and angry, but they don’t expect a sense of humor. And the only thing that gets me through is a sense of humor.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “The problem with anger is that it’s so consuming. You’ve got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that’s going faster and faster, we’re spinning off the edge of the universe.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it’s a monastery.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “We cannot burn Mick Jagger. We want the effect, but we can’t burn him.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “If you don’t like the films of Samuel Fuller, then you just don’t like cinema.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “When I was growing up, I don’t remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “As you grow older, you change.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “I have a desire to tell stories. And I’m never quite satisfied.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that’s just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine – that sort of thing.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy’s eyes.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “I look for a thematic idea running through my movies and I see that it’s the outsider struggling for recognition. I realize that all my life I’ve been an outsider, and above all, being lonely but never realizing it.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can’t articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “I don’t know how else to tell the story except to utilise that vocabulary: the rain, the darkness, the mansions, the framing, etc, the lighting and that sort of thing.”
Martin Scorsese Quote: “I’m going to be 60, and I’m almost used to myself.”
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