Martin Scorsese Quotes

People want to classify and say, 'OK, this is a gangster film.' 'This is a Western.' 'This is a... ' You know? It's easy to classify and it makes people feel comfortable, but it doesn't matter, it doesn't really matter.

Martin Scorsese

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• I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.

  

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• Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists.

  

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• Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.

  

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• People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.

  

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• Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.

  

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• People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.

  

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• Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.

  

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• I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.

  

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• At times, the curve/fat/plus convo tends be this 'out of the dark' story, like, 'I used to be insecure, but now here I am.' But that is not my reality, and for most of the people, that isn't their reality, either.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
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• A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

  

  Barbara Smith
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• Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, and it's like, 'You've never been to my whole world?'

  

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• Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.

  

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• Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

  

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• The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

  

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• I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.

  

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• People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.

  

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• Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

  

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• I get really nervous when people are like, 'I saw you in a trailer! I saw you on TV!' Genuinely, my cheeks get red.

  

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• The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

  

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• When societies go backwards and slide into authoritarianism, nationalism, and tribalism, machismo and sexism are also emboldened.

  

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• The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'

  

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• I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.

  

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• On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.

  

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• People want to classify and say, 'OK, this is a gangster film.' 'This is a Western.' 'This is a... ' You know? It's easy to classify and it makes people feel comfortable, but it doesn't matter, it doesn't really matter.

  

  Martin Scorsese
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  • Gangster