Martin Scorsese Quotes

It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we need.

A film causes me so many worries and such a lot of reactions that I have to love it in order to get over it and past it.

His soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no one. That all his characters were himself.

The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.

Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.

There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce "that great past to a trouble of fools." For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.

Only poetry inspires poetry.

Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.

I think your life informs your art.

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it

I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would die

My grandmother always used to say, "If you know your past and you know where you have to go, why do you rehearse?" I always remember this and it's true. You have to start each day again-you can't repeat what you did.

Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it.

We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.

The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.

Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.

As a matter of fact, when people ask where my 'point of view' comes from, it was there in one of the first sketches we wrote for [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis.

I am like the lover of Roland Barthes "who's always running in his head". I'm always searching, and "eating" everything from my life, in order to put it in my dresses!

If you're going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration.

If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.

The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.

The past gives great examples of what can happen in the future. It's always important to remember.

[Personal life] doesn't affect my creative process. It just gives me more subjects to talk about. Basically whatever you put in your music is how you want people to view you.