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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.

Martin Scorsese

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Martin Scorsese
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 17
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Martin Charles Scorsese
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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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In truly great films - the ones that people need to make, the ones that start speaking through them, the ones that keep moving into territory that is more and more unfathomable and uncomfortable - nothing's ever simple or neatly resolved. You're left with a mystery.
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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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I think if you think of yourself as religious and if you're given a gift, some may not think it's that great a gift - some critics. But others might, you know. So you say, look - whether it's good, bad or indifferent, this is what I do.
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If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.
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I'm in a different chapter of my life. As time goes by and I grow older, I find that I need to just be quiet and think. There have been periods when I've locked myself away for days, but now it's different - I'm married and we have a daughter who is in my office the whole time.
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Vertigo is probably my favourite Hitchcock film and probably one of my favourite films of all time. It's a film that I'm obsessed with. I saw it on its first release in vista vision, projected in vista-vision, at the Capitol Theatre in New York. That moment when the nun comes up in the end... it's just an extraordinary shot.
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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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If you’re looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel.
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An interviewer once asked me to discuss my collaboration with Elmer Bernstein, and precisely why I chose to work with him. My first thought was: How could I not work with Elmer, when I had the chance? Simply put, he's the best there is-the very best.
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I don't think there is any difference between fantasy and reality in the way these should be approached in a film. Of course if you live that way you are clinically insane.
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Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.
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Well the thing is that the New York of 1846 to 1862 was very different from downtown New York now. Really nothing from that period still exists in New York.
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People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor. And there are the threats, at the end - if you don't do it this way, you'll lose your box office if you don't do it that way, you'll never get financed again... 35, 40 years of this, you get beat up.
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You've got to protect whatever creative talent you have left.
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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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I'm not a Hollywood director. I'm an in spite of Hollywood director.
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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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There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.
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