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You don't make pictures for Oscars.

Martin Scorsese

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Martin Scorsese
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 17
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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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We cannot burn Mick Jagger. We want the effect, but we can't burn him.
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As a kid I watched the Academy Awards on television and always wanted one - or several - like one of my favorite directions, John Ford. He won six. On the other hand, Orson Welles, who's on the top of my list, didn't win any. Alfred Hitchcock didn't win any. Howard Hawks didn't win any.
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More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.
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Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.
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Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.
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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 wouldn't presume to be God's point of view.
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I happen to like vampires more than zombies.
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Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.
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The creation of the island, or the impression of the island, as it changes in the mind of the character also came in to play... there was another very important collaborator, Rob Legato, on special visual effects. And then ultimately there's Thelma Schoonmaker, who keeps me focused during the editing of the picture.
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You've got to love something enough to kill it.
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Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
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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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I accept all awards. I like them.
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When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.
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I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.
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Always get to the set or the location early, so that you can be all alone and draw your inspiration for the blocking and the setups in private and quiet.
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Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
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The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.
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