Martin Scorsese quotes - page 3

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other. (Martin Scorsese)

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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Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.

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I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.

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My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.

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A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

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The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

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I happen to like vampires more than zombies.

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It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.

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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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I still dislike phones, yeah! (Martin Scorsese)

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

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You don't make pictures for Oscars.

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Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.

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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 grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

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

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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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I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say... well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar.

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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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I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy's eyes. (Martin Scorsese)

As a child I had terrible asthma.

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Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

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Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them.

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All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.

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Martin Scorsese

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Photo: Montclair Film, CC BY 2.0

Occupation: American Director
Born: November 17, 1942
Quotes count: 97
Wikipedia: Martin Scorsese

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