Martin Scorsese Quotes
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You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore.
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Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.
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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 also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.
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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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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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You don't make pictures for Oscars.
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Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
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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 do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.
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I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.
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I've been to North Africa many times.
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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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It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.
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I'm an older generation.
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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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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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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'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.