 Because there is actually something very interesting in Goodfellas, how the style of the film changes as time goes by and based on the mental state of the protagonist. |
| One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister. |
| It's interesting actually, what's gone on with that footage, and also what happened with the footage from the war in Afghanistan, is that our news reporting is pretty much along the lines of pornography now. |
| No, I did a film called Death and the Compass as well. |
| Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked. |
| And it says something about our level of disassociation, that we can provoke these wars abroad but we're not allowed to see people get killed as a result. |
| You can't change the system through violence. |
| The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king. |
| The future is always a dystopia in movies. |
| You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation. |
| I'd love to make another film in Mexico. |
| Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures. |
| So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since. |
| Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square. |
| The life of a repo man is always intense. |
| In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius. |
| And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua. |
| Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done. |
| Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film. |
| I don't think about Hollywood at all. |
