Martin Scorsese Quotes
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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.
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As a trial lawyer, intelligence is important only in the sense that it allows you to play the game, if you will. Without it, you don't even have a ticket into the competitive arena. But beyond that, it doesn't get you very far at all.
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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.
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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.
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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!'
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I'm not a very fast-paced person.
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I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.
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I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a new millennium. There is a special place in my heart for that film and Melanie. She was a remarkable character - a loving person - and because of that, she was a happy person. And Scarlett, of course, was not.
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
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If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
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My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
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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.
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Each show comes with its own set of problems to work through.
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I've always loved improv. It's my thing.
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Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.
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I become quite obsessive when I get into something.
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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.
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The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.
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Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.
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There's often an assumption you're more privileged if you belong to a family with people who have made a success.
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You don't make pictures for Oscars.
