Martin Scorsese

As you grow older, you change.

What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people.

I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.

Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.

I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.