When I talk about recreating the spirit of that world, the music is as important as the dialogue and the behavior. From 1947 on, music scored what was happening in the streets, the back rooms. And it affected, sometimes, the behavior of the people, because this music was playing in the streets. Jukeboxes were brought out during the summer. Windows were open, and you could hear what everybody else was listening to. It expresses the excitement of the time. Simply, it’s the way I saw life. The way I experienced life. - Martin Scorsese.

It’s hilarious, the problems that arise when you’re on the set. It’s really funny because you make a complete fool of yourself. I think I know how to use dissolves, the grammar of cinema. But there’s only one place for the camera. That’s the right place. Where is the right place? I don’t know. You get there somehow. - Martin Scorsese

Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci and Frank Vincent with director Martin Scorsese on the set of Raging Bull, photographed by Brian Hamill, 1980.

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GoodFellas (dir. Martin Scorsese, 1990)

Jimmy was the kind of guy that rooted for bad guys in the movies.

“The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.” - Martin Scorsese

Liza Minnelli & Robert De Niro with director Martin Scorsese on the set of ‘New York New York’, 1977.