Martin Scorsese

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

People say, 'Where do you live?' and I say that theoretically, I live in London, but basically that's just where I go to change my suitcase. Otherwise, I'm always flying somewhere.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.