Martin Scorsese Quotes
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I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.
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There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.
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I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.
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I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.
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All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.
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I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.
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Can a film really change anything? I mean, what was the last time? Maybe the Italian neo-realists, where they became the voice and the heart and the soul of Italy, a nation that had been destroyed. I don't know.
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Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.
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Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.
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Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
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If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.
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The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.
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If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!
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Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.
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You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.
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As you grow older, you change.
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I make different films now.
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Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'
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People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.
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It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
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I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.
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I think all of us, under certain circumstances, could be capable of some very despicable acts. And that's why, over the years, in my movies I've had characters who didn't care what people thought about them. We try to be as true to them as possible and maybe see part of ourselves in there that we may not like.
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If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.
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I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.