Martin Scorsese Quotes
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I'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself.
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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 bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.
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I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.
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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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Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?
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I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on.
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And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.
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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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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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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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Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
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I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy's eyes.
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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 didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.
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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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I've always liked 3D.
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As a child I had terrible asthma.
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I've been to North Africa many times.
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The young people today are the 21st century.
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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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You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore.
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I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.
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When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.