Quotes by Martin Scorsese

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

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

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology – the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

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

As you grow older, you change.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

Film in the 20th century, it’s the American art form, like jazz.

I don’t like being in houses alone.

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It’s a cacophony, it’s like a madness I think that’s been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.

Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you’re in your 60s and you’re with the kid every day, you’re dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.