If you're intrigued by movie making as a career,

this isn't the class for you.

But if you need to make movies, if you

feel like you can't rest until you've

told this particular story that you're burning to tell,

then I could be speaking to you.

If you don't get physically ill seeing your first rough cut,

something's wrong.

You always think you're not gonna get physically ill,

but you do.

People think it's good editing if you can see it.

Good editing is something else too, where you don't see it.

Sometimes you think something is dreadfully wrong and later

and you look at in the context of a cut, might work.

On the case of production design,

when you take it to Casino, the excess

is what the film's about, the manic nature or the splashiness

of the whole thing.

We knew that it had a certain quality to it that

is contrasted later with the confrontations between Joe

Pesci and Bob De Niro and just the two of them

in the desert arguing.

You feel the change.

There's nothing there.

If the actors want to take a scene a certain place,

I'll go with them there.

There are things I know don't work immediately,

but you shoot it, because it's a process.

If you had the time on set, I like

to tell the actors to try anything.

Add the time to fail, just go ahead.

Try this. Try that.

You need that freedom.

You need to give them that freedom.

Well, of course, when I was younger,

we didn't have cameras and that sort of thing.

It was too expensive.

This world of movie making, where these miraculous images

and stories came from, really felt very distant.

I had a teacher.

He was the one to give me the confidence

to become a filmmaker, to come from this other world

and suddenly be able to express myself.

If the machinery of it all seems too big

and scary and overwhelming, it's great.

You wake up in the morning and you do it anyway.

You have to learn it yourself.

You have to learn it going through that process.

That's the greatest thing any teacher could

give a student, the confidence and the inspiration

to make you think, well, you know, it's crazy,

but maybe I can do it.

Now it's time to get to work.

I'm Martin Scorsese and this is my MasterClass.