Martin Scorsese Quotes
I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
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We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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Most men are fragile.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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Retiring is the easy way out.
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The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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I think there is a real thing going on where writers are feeling more liberated to write with a big canvas because of a demonstrable, continued appetite for long-form storytelling.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
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On the other hand one must not entertain any fantastic illusions on the productive power of the credit system, so far as it supplies or sets in motion money-capital.
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Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.
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Where there is no work, there is no dignity.
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I'm very excited to see where the characters and their relationships go. But in the end, it really boils down to the people who have more power than me, who control the money.
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I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.
