Martin Scorsese Quotes

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Martin Scorsese

Profession : Director

Birth : November 17, 1942

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

Martin Scorsese

I'm sad to see celluloid go, there's no doubt. But, you know, nitrate went, by the way, in 1971. If you ever saw a nitrate print of a silent film and then saw an acetate print, you'd see a big difference, but nobody remembers anymore. The acetate print is what we have. Maybe. Now it's digital.

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I mean, music totally comes from your soul.

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I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

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As you grow older, you change.

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Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

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There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

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And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

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If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

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You never know how much time you have left.

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On every film you suffer, but on some you really suffer.

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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 can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.

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The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

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Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.

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You make a deal. You figure out how much sin you can live with.

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There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.

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There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.

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I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

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Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

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