Love Quote by Martin Scorsese

Scorsese’s planes aren’t really about aviation; they’re about the uneasy truce between fascination and fear that powers a lot of his work. He starts with pure surface pleasure: the look of planes, the sleek promise of design, the romance of departure. Then he pivots to the “idea” of flight, a move from aesthetics to mechanics, from movie-star glamour to the rigging behind the curtain. That shift is classic Scorsese: loving the spectacle while obsessing over the machinery that makes it possible - and dangerous.

The line “the more I learn about it the better I feel” frames knowledge as a coping strategy, not a path to mastery. He’s not claiming that understanding eliminates anxiety; he’s admitting the opposite. “While I still may not like it” is the tell. Scorsese is describing a modern bargain: you don’t have to enjoy the thing that scares you, but you do need a working model of it to keep moving through the world.

There’s also an artist’s credo hiding in plain sight. Filmmaking is its own improbable flight - technical, collaborative, precarious. You can be enthralled by the image and still distrust the experience of being airborne, whether that’s literal flying or the loss of control that comes with scale, risk, and momentum. The relief arrives not from comfort, but from clarity: a “sense of what is really happening.” For a director who’s spent a career mapping sin, compulsion, and systems, that’s not reassurance. It’s survival.