Martin Scorsese Quotes

I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.

Martin Scorsese

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• Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Music
  • Songs
  • Playing

• 'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • War
  • Song
  • Ride

• Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Like
  • Never
  • Early

• People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Job
  • Acting

• If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Country
  • Hope
  • Food

• Sarcasm all around the world is always against right wing and against people in power. That's the definition of political sarcasm.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Hate
  • Attention
  • Friend

• I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Myself

• Others do not define you - you define yourself through your words and actions.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Words
  • You
  • Yourself

• You can't be a conqueror in your own home.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Home
  • You
  • Own

• Personality is so important - when you dress somebody for a big party, it is good to feel that the person has an ease and naturalness with what she is wearing.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Good
  • Important
  • She

• Does man think because he has found that thinking pays? Does he bring his children up because he has found it pays?

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Children

• Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it.

  

  Marguerite Duras
  • Freedom
  • City
  • Paris

• Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Time
  • Truth

• In 1957, as the leader of the majority in the United States Senate, speaking in support of legislation to guarantee the right of all men to vote, I said, 'This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.'

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • People
  • Men
  • Control

• You know, 'Mad Men' is notoriously secretive with its plotlines, even with exposing them to actors on the show.

  

  Alison Brie
  • Men
  • Mad

• Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.

  

  Paul Verlaine
  • Heart
  • Fall
  • Tears

• I'm not going to beat this life. It's gonna get me in the end. So accepting that is a real freedom and finding a joy in working that I haven't allowed myself before.

  

  Ben Foster
  • Life
  • Real
  • Freedom

• So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things.

  

  Peter Carey
  • People

• You hear people say, 'Well, I was going to say this, but I knew I couldn't get through it without crying.' Well, like, think of all the great things we didn't hear because of that.

  

  Jennifer Palmieri
  • People
  • Great
  • Crying

• Sarah Palin is an heir to the women's movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life has she thought, 'I can't do that because I'm a woman.'

  

  Gail Collins
  • Life
  • Women
  • She

• Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember - there's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Women
  • Remember
  • Help

• Presbyterians are 'the spirit of the Antichrist.' (Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, p. 239)

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Money
  • Democracy

• I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.

  

  Martin Scorsese