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I still dislike phones, yeah!

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Martin Scorsese
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 17
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Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.
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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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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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If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!
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I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.
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I'm not a Hollywood director. I'm an in spite of Hollywood director.
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There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.
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My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.
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