The Age of Innocence

“And Age of Innocence. Another Scorsese people don’t revisit enough. I have, on and on and on and on and on, for Frankenstein, Crimson Peak, because he understands Edith Wharton, Henry James, all the pulsations of the era. Repression is part of narrative exercise. It’s not just what you let loose, but what you contain. And Scorsese is a master of playing with repression. He absolutely is.”

“The Age of Innocence is a film I did. It was the third feature film I did when I started film work. I started in my sixties doing film. And Martin Scorsese was wonderful. Martin Scorsese was there and directed me, and it was just me in this little role and everything, and I was so impressed with that, that he took the time and it was so important to him to be there. And so thank you, Martin Scorsese. And this is a beautiful film, and it was great shooting it.”

“Another blind… The Age of Innocence, Martin Scorsese. Very romantic, very subtle. Just, like, a touch of a pinkie against a pinkie is, like, the hottest part of it. It shows restraint. I don’t know how to show restraint. I know how to show people pee with a boner. I don’t know how to be this subtle. But maybe this is what I’m going to learn from this: subtlety.”

“I'm getting a copy of The Age of Innocence. I've seen the film, of course, and love it. And I also think that the source material by Edith Wharton is one of the most perfect American novels ever written, and Michelle Pfeiffer is just gorgeous in it.”

“The Age of Innocence, that's another one I'm going to take. The Age of Innocence is The Most Beautiful of Scorsese's films. I mean I love all of Scorsese's films but I particularly like the two films that are not typical of his body of works: The Age of Innocence and also New York, New York, which is one of my favorite musicals.”

“I'm going to start with The Age of Innocence by Martin Scorsese. The Beast is a film that has three periods in it and one is 1910 and I've done a film called House of Tolerance that took place in 1900 and every time I do a period film I rewatch this film because he made the past so contemporary. I really wanted to find a film in which the emotions are so strong and so hidden at the same time and the portrait of these three women played by Michelle Pfeiffer is so heartbreaking.”

“The Age of Innocence de Scorsese, pour moi une des plus belles fins, voilà, des plus belles fins de l'histoire du cinéma.”