Martin Scorsese Quotes

We think that - as kids, you know - that kids make up stories and live in a sort of fictional place, but that, as grown-ups, we tell the truth and live in fact. But, of course, the reality is we take the facts that we know, and then we fill in all the blanks.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong

History is a fiction which actually happened; fiction is history which could have happened.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

I'm not saying I talk to cartoon characters all the time, but the characters are very real to me. In a very non-insane way.

I feel that entertainment happens when fact and fiction is balanced.

If the way I see the world is mad, then fantastic.

I'm not interested in making 'black' movies. I'm interested in making movies that reflect reality as I perceive it.

I think both you and I, we live in a world of fiction and stories.

I don't think I've succeeded in making any really good films. There are moments, scenes, whole movements that sing. It has all added up to a cinema of sorts, even though I'm still learning my art.

Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.

I don't mind reminding people it's a movie, or that you're telling a story. Everybody knows this, but for some reason, we want to be real. I don't get it, I like the fakeness of my craft. I don't think the audience minds-they all know we're making a movie.