Martin Scorsese Quotes

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Martin Scorsese

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• Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Today

• One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Think
  • Painting

• Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Beach
  • Eternity
  • Director

• My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Process
  • August
  • Thursday

• It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Often
  • Fooled

• Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

  

  Karl Marx
  • World
  • Revolution
  • Win

• I started saying, 'I don't want to be crazy anymore.' I need to make some changes. And the first thing I started doing was just got all the men out of my life, because that was a big problem for me. That was a crutch, if you will. You know, trying to define yourself through other people or men, in particular.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Life
  • Men

• Fashion nowadays is all about product - bags and shoes - and you're kind of a product yourself, aren't you?

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Fashion
  • Yourself
  • Shoes

• We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • House
  • Small
  • Air

• I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.

  

  Felix de Weldon
  • London
  • Street
  • Bond

• To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Good
  • Night
  • Light

• It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Long
  • Want
  • Legacy

• In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Music
  • Home

• I'm about being honest and knowing that people are watching, and they want to know that I'm asking questions that they want the answers to.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Want
  • Questions

• It's always been a dream of mine to be Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse, and here I am performing alongside Robert Lindsay and being directed by a major Broadway producer. Who said dreams don't come true?

  

  Samantha Bond
  • True
  • Dream
  • Performing

• The idea of fighting your new girlfriend's ex-lovers, 'Street Fighter' style, is the ultimate geek wish-fulfilment.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Wish
  • Style
  • Fighting

• A person isn't born with the intelligence to be with someone special; you learn it, and you fail in the path of life, but you don't have to give up the chance to love.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Love
  • Person

• If you're in a Gay Mafia and you get whacked, is that good or bad? gay voice Say hello to my little friend.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Friend

• There is a growing sense among Americans outside the Beltway that while President Obama may be a good talker, he is a lousy manager.

  

  Kathleen Troia McFarland
  • Good
  • May
  • Growing

• I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • School
  • Comedy
  • Always

• The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Life
  • Character
  • Action

• No doubt the great majority of them are in the cemetery long ago, and I suppose the rest of us will join them before long. Speaking for myself I am willing; in fact I believe I have been willing ever since I was eighteen years old; not urgent, but willing, merely willing.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Long

• Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

  

  Martin Scorsese