Martin Scorsese Quotes

If you can get your movie made the way you want to get it made, no matter what the end result is going to be, if people are going to see it, that's awesome.

You always want to do something different. I enjoy the process. I like making movies, and it's increasingly hard to find a movie you'd want to make.

Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.

I never watched a frame of the film until it was finished.

I write about what I want to write about, and so the film comes out as a very personal expression even if its subject matter is totally prefabricated.

Being part of 'Natural Nylon' is a great way to have an influence on the films that get out there. I love films and it gives me an input.

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.

I wanted to make a film as an artist, and it's going to have to find an audience, you know. I don't know how big the audience will be.

I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often.

I'm so not interested in producing, other than doing my own work, producing my own films. I only do it as favors, for other people to get their films made.

There were no previews; we made the film we wanted to make.

I don't think any studio - it was a long shot at the time - but I don't think any studio in a million years would make 'Thelma and Louise' right now. But there's so many other kinds of movies they won't make right now.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

I love doing features, but it's a very different ballgame. Sometimes I yearn for short films again, working with a small team, getting my hands on the clay.

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.

I want to make my own movie.

As a director, my job is to spend money, and the producer's is to save money. Masoom, Bandit Queen and the first Queen Elizabeth have been my most uncompromised films.

I don’t think that they would have allowed me to make The Best Years of Our Lives just a few years after I made it [in 1946].

I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.

Film shouldn't be a pain. It's a creative process.

All my films were based on sensitive issues, and they were passed without any problems. I give full credit to the Censor Board for being capable enough to do their work well.

I informed Malayalam filmmakers that I can do a film for free if the role excites me.