Quote of the Day (Martin Scorsese, on Family Moviegoing Experiences in the Early Postwar Era)

“I realize now that the warmth of that connection with my family and with the images on the screen gave me something very precious. We were experiencing something fundamental together. We were living through the emotional truths on the screen, often in coded form, which these films from the 1940s and 1950s sometimes expressed in small things: gestures, glances, reactions between the characters, light, shadow. These were things that we normally couldn’t discuss or wouldn’t discuss or even acknowledge in our lives.”—American Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese, “The Persisting Vision: Reading the Language of Cinema,” The New York Review of Books, Aug. 15, 2015

The image accompanying this post, of Martin Scorsese at the 2023 Montclair Film Festival, was taken Oct. 27, 2023, by Neil Grabowsky.