Martin Scorsese Life Quotations

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.

I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say... well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar.

Etta James' voice is just as commanding as it was when she was young, but it's different -- deeper, tougher. How could it not be? That's what life can do to you.