Leonardo and I have worked together on four pictures now. It’s been one of the great adventures of my career. He is absolutely essential to me, to all of us, and essential to the history of movies. - Martin Scorsese on working with Leonardo Dicaprio [x]


Did you know that the word ‘trauma’ comes from the Greek for ‘wound’? And what is the German word for ‘dream’? Traum. Ein Traum. Wounds can create monsters, and you, you are wounded, Marshal. And wouldn’t you agree, when you see a monster, you must stop it? 

Shutter Island (2010)




This place makes me wonder… which would be worse? To live as a monster or to die as a good man?


Which would be worse - to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?
— Shutter Island (2010)