Martin Scorsese Quotes
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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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Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.
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I mean, music totally comes from your soul.
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I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy's eyes.
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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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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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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 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 also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.
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I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.
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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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Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
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I'm an older generation.
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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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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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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.
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I've been to North Africa many times.