Martin Scorsese: Doing

Martin Scorsese is American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. Explore interesting quotes on doing.

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“I always tell the younger film-makers and students: Do it like the painters used to…Study the old masters. Enrich your palette. Expand the canvas. There's always so much more to learn.”

Martin Scorsese

Scorsese: A Personal Journey through American Movies.

“Mean Streets dealt with the American Dream, according to which everybody thinks they can get rich quick, and if they can't do it by legal means then they'll do it by illegal ones.”

Martin Scorsese

Scorsese on Scorsese, "Mean Streets—Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore—Taxi Driver".

“There is no such thing as pointless violence. City of God, is that pointless violence? It's reality, it's real life, it has to do with the human condition. Being involved in Christianity and Catholicism when I was very young, you have that innocence, the teachings of Christ. Deep down you want to think that people are really good - but the reality outweighs that.”

Martin Scorsese

Scorsese: No Such Thing As Pointless Violence, WENN (10 October 2004).