Martin Scorsese Quotes
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I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.
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I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.
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There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.
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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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As a child I had terrible asthma.
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You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.
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The young people today are the 21st century.
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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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People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.
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My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.
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Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.
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Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through.
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There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
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I've always liked 3D.
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Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.
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It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know.
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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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I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.
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Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.
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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.
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Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.
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Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
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Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.
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I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy's eyes.