Martin Scorsese Quotes

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

I've been called crazy many times before.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

I don't care what Tom Cruise says about therapy.

On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math.

I have my dark side. You have your dark side. From the second that we have a brain, there are things that are not right - we are human beings with all these illusions and complexes and everything. That's attractive to me.

There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say.

I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

Anybody who knows me has said, 'I had a Denis O'Hare moment.' I suppose in the kindest instance it means standing up for yourself. In the unkindest, it means the crazy guy in the street.

The world may censure me for what I am about to do, but I am sure that posterity will justify me.

The general opinion of Lugard is that he is a lunatic …

Many a man has been certified insane for less than the noble lord has done this afternoon.

I don't know what people have against Jimmy Carter. He's done nothing.

Is Mr. [John Quincy] Adams demented, or is he perversely wicked? Both, I think, and Adams ought to be confined to a hospital.

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

I don't know anybody who's any good who isn't nuts.

For years, Warner Bros. was trying to get me to make a movie about Howard Hughes.

I am a man of many flaws and contradictions.

Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors.

At the end of the day, when you go on to Google everything is about the way you were sacked when you were in charge of Australia. It doesn't mention the good things I did with South Africa or the good things I did in my first year with Australia when I brought in a lot of young players and gave them opportunities and tried to build a team.

That whole Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame thing - at least half the people in there don't have a place in any kind of hall of fame anywhere, in my opinion.

If I were to pick the life of someone whom I professionally mimic in many ways, it would be Howard Hughes, surprisingly.