Martin Scorsese Quotes

His films became increasingly fascinating to me because of the editing style, a very crisp, clear style of editing that kind of points the audience toward where to look in a scene.

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

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I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.

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I think editors know so much about how to tell a story with pictures, ... It's such an important facet of becoming a film director to know how footage can be controlled and manipulated. Every one of his films betrayed that wonderful beginning he had.

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I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.

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The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.

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He represents the American tradition of excellence and honesty and integrity. In a sense, he was the Steven Spielberg of his time.

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Many of these names on the Walk of Fame bloom larger than life. They created the grammar of cinema.

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I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.

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I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

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I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on.

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On the one hand, you're the same person, but as you get older, you change somewhat, and you never know how it's going to affect your work.

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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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If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.

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I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.

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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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We couldn't have cared less about the government, especially the city government, which produced policemen who did nothing but take graft.

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Etta James' voice is just as commanding as it was when she was young, but it's different -- deeper, tougher. How could it not be That's what life can do to you.

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It's a very savage kind of humor, it comes out of a great deal of pain.

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

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Just when people think he gives you one thing, ... he gives you another.

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In addition to celebrating great blues music, we always wanted to make sure that proceeds from this endeavor flowed back to the musicians and to efforts to keep this wonderful music alive.

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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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What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people.

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The reality is, if I don't do PR, I'm hurting the picture. And as many things as I did, that's as many things as I turned down.

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