[on Scorsese]: His films are not just stories and plots. He handles his characters with so much detail that after you watch a Scorsese film, you walk out of the theatre feeling like you personally know Travis Bickle or Henry Hill.
When you look at the masters of film, like Hitchock, Scorsese and Fellini, what they are doing is leaving behind a study of the time they lived in. Filmmakers are like historians. It's up to us to record our generation.