Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”
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Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”
Studios, he said, are not “interested any longer in supporting individual voices that express their personal feelings or their personal thoughts and personal ideas and feelings on a big budget. And what’s happened now is that they’ve pigeonholed it to what they call indies.”
Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”
Let go of self-delusion, which is maybe the hardest thing of all to let go of. Shape the thing you’re making into a pure expression of the thing you’re making: “Cut away, strip away the unnecessary, and strip away what people expect.”
Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”
Otherwise, what’s the point of making it? You’ve got to be saying something.
Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”
he does see trouble in the glut of franchise and comic book entertainment that currently makes up much of what you can see in a theater. “The danger there is what it’s doing to our culture,” Scorsese said. “Because there are going to be generations now that think movies are only those—that’s what movies are.”
I think people already think that.
I think people already think that.
Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”
what happens when we keep trying to replicate previous successes, and going on the tried and tested path
. “If that was the only way that I was able to be allowed to make films, then I’d have to stop. Because the results weren’t satisfying. It was at times extremely difficult, and I wouldn’t survive it. I’d be dead. And so I decided it was over, really.”
Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”
sometimes, you just have to choose
the very grammar of cinema
Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”
Scorsese said he wanted to see how the Band’s music was made. Where did it come from? “I wanted to see what that magic was,” he said. “But ultimately there’s a lifestyle, too, that goes along with it. And a lot of it has to do with partying. And, okay: Partying went way out of hand for me. Because I didn’t know how to control it. But, I also wanted... See more
Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”
there’s a lifestyle that comes with your wanting. Can you accept that if that’s the transformation you wish to opt into?
Is the quality of being free and uninhibited also then about being able to choose freely what you wanna be
And if I’m honest in the work, maybe I could be honest as a person. Maybe.
Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”
“The time you spend is really spending time,” he said. “It isn’t wasting time. Then one has to find within that spending of time an allowing oneself to just not feel you’re wasting it if you’re just existing for the moment. Just exist.
Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”
Hmm, where were we? Ah, yes, he was talking about how movies can be built or deconstructed because of Killers, which has the elliptical, episodic structure of many of his other films. Less narrative, more atmosphere, more information by way of anecdote, by way of scene, by way of character. “What I had hoped to do, and I didn’t do this intentionall... See more