Martin scorsese

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

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.

People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor. And there are the threats, at the end - if you don't do it this way,...

I still dislike phones, yeah!

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?

The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.