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Martin Scorsese Inspirational Quotes (109)

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There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.
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If you’re looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel.
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You've got to love something enough to kill it.
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There are movies that change the whole way in which films are made, like Klute, where Gordon Willis’s photography on the film is so textured, and, they said, too dark.
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I prefer people who don't get caught, and if they do get caught, I prefer people who don't give in.
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I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.
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I always tell the younger filmmakers and students: Do it like the painters used to...Study they old masters. Enrich your palette. Expand the canvas. There's always so much more to learn.
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You've got to protect whatever creative talent you have left.
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The storyboard for me is the way to visualise the entire movie in advance.
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I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs - is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema.
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My films really have to be a part of a whole body of work that says something to me.
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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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I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.
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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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Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.
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When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.
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The most important thing is the script.
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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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Mean Streets dealt with the American Dream, according to which everybody thinks they can get rich quick, and if they can't do it by legal means then they'll do it by illegal ones.
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If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.
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I remember the Korean War very well. And I remember the soldiers who were POWs who supposedly were brainwashed, quote, unquote, who gave in, so to speak. And when they came back, they were treated like pariahs and traitors.
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As a child I had terrible asthma.
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If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!
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There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.
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