Martin Scorsese Quotes
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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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Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.
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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 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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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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It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know.
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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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I'm an older generation.
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I've been to North Africa many times.
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You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore.
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You don't make pictures for Oscars.
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I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.
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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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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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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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There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.
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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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It's very good for me to remember what actors go through.