Martin Scorsese Quotes

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Martin Scorsese

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• The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Lead
  • Him

• You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Women
  • Love
  • Respect

• I'm basically useless in interviews because I don't remember anything. But I find it very peaceful, actually, because I have a sort of busy mind. I'm like, 'This is great!'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Remember

• I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • World
  • Like
  • Carving

• I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • People
  • Men
  • Real

• If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Respect
  • Court
  • Tried

• My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Work
  • Better
  • Beauty

• Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. Say no anyway, because it could lead you to greater opportunities.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Learn
  • Opportunities
  • Saying

• Each show comes with its own set of problems to work through.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Work
  • Problems
  • Through

• Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Brain
  • Patient
  • Tests

• I become quite obsessive when I get into something.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Something
  • Get
  • Become

• Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Time
  • Long
  • Know

• I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Writer

• As far as stand-ups go, I always loved Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, and Sinbad. Basically, I love black comedians because they're the funniest. I wish I were a black comedian, actually.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Love
  • Black
  • Wish

• I don’t think I open myself to it. My dick is sort of like a white supremacist. I’ve got a Benetton heart and a fuckin’ David Duke cock. I’m going to start dating separately from my dick.

  

  John Mayer
  • Heart
  • Dating

• Let the psychotics take over. They alone understood what was happening.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Alone

• I do not go outdoors... As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.

  

  David Rakoff
  • City

• My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.

  

  Jerry Hall

• I almost feel more anxious lately about, 'Here's your opportunity, now you've got to make something of it.'

  

  Chris Hemsworth
  • Opportunity

• There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound us while they charm, but the pen we take up rejoicing and lay down with satisfaction, for it has the power to advantage not only its lord and master, but many others as well, even though they be far away - sometimes, indeed, though they be not born for thousands of years to come.

  

  Petrarch
  • Fail
  • Pleasures
  • Wound

• Usually, the song will tell me who it belongs to. It seems clear to me who would do a good job with it, who it suits.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Good
  • Job
  • Song

• Anybody who's serious about their passion in life gets doors slammed in their face, literally and figuratively.

  

  Leeza Gibbons
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Serious

• Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish...It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Justice
  • Meaning
  • Sounds

• You don't make pictures for Oscars.

  

  Martin Scorsese