Martin Scorsese Quotes
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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.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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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.
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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.
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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
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Growing up, I was always the small guy.
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It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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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!
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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.
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Fashion nowadays is all about product - bags and shoes - and you're kind of a product yourself, aren't you?
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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.
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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.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
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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.
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If everybody thinks of something, then it will happen. Your mind is part of the universe. It is connected, you can use its energy.
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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.
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Being married, I've got so many things to do that I am the last to do things for myself. Taking care of my body has been difficult, but I am doing the best that I can.
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Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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We release records, but we just make distribution deals. We have our own label. Everything online. The worldwide web has changed most everything.
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Literacy remains even now the base and model of all programs of industrial mechanization; but, at the same time, locks the minds and senses of its users in the mechanical and fragmentary matrix that is so necessary to the maintenance of mechanized society.
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Some other things I don't miss: the media and the pressure of just being asked to do, and being asked questions every day.
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Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
