Martin Scorsese Quotes
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I'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself.
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Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.
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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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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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People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.
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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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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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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 was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.
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I've always liked 3D.
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The young people today are the 21st century.
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As a child I had terrible asthma.
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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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Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
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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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It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know.
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I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.
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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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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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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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I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.
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I mean, music totally comes from your soul.
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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.