Martin Scorsese Way Quotations

I do prefer doing more takes. There's something very organic that comes from the first take, but certain things come out. More details come out, in the way another actor says something. It's always this investigative process. You come further and further to the truth, the more you escalate. I like to do a lot of takes. I have a hunger for it. I like to see what there is to discover in a scene, that hasn't been thought of.

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.

The storyboard for me is the way to visualise the entire movie in advance,

I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.

There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.

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

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.