Martin Scorsese Quotes
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Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.
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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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Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
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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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Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.
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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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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 mean, music totally comes from your soul.
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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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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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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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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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I'm an older generation.
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It's very good for me to remember what actors go through.
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I wish I could do everything in 3D.
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There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.
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You don't make pictures for Oscars.
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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 do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.
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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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I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.
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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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More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.