Martin Scorsese Quotes
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Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
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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 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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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 also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.
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You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore.
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I mean, music totally comes from your soul.
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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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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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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 an older generation.
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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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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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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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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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It's very good for me to remember what actors go through.
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You don't make pictures for Oscars.
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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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There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.
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I wish I could do everything in 3D.