Martin Scorsese Quotes
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I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.
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The young people today are the 21st century.
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I've always liked 3D.
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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.
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You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore.
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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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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'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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Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.
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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 very good for me to remember what actors go through.
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I mean, music totally comes from your soul.
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I'm an older generation.
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I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.
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I wish I could do everything in 3D.
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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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You don't make pictures for Oscars.
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There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.
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We can't keep thinking in a limited way about what cinema is. We still don't know what cinema is. Maybe cinema could only really apply to the past or the first 100 years, when people actually went to a theater to see a film, you see?
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Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.
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Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.
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I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.
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More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.