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

• When I look at a film, I don't think, 'Oh, I wish I had done that' because I haven't done that role, so it doesn't matter.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Done
  • Think
  • Wish

• 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

• First, there was darkness, then came the Strangers.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Darkness
  • Strangers

• 'Calvin, what kind of trouble are you planning to make?''No trouble at all,' said Calvin, annoyed. 'Why do you think I want to cause trouble?''Because you are awake.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Why
  • Planning
  • Annoyed

• Optimist, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Black

• I was brought up by a Marxist rationalist stepfather, so I don't believe in the supernatural or religion or horoscopes, and the absolute nature of death is quite helpful for me. My husband was there, then he wasn't.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Nature

• There are thousands of ragas, and they are all connected with different times of the day, like sunrise or night or sunset. It is all based on 72 of what we call 'mela' or scales. And we have principally nine moods, ranging from peacefulness to praying, or the feeling of emptiness you get by sitting by the ocean.

  

  Ravi Shankar
  • Feeling
  • Connected
  • Emptiness

• 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