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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.
Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 17
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Martin Charles Scorsese
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The first element that I connected with was the emotion. Sorry, that's how it goes.
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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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I wouldn't presume to be God's point of view.
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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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As a child I had terrible asthma.
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The only thing I really wanted was the freedom to be able to get what I want on film. I’ve dealt with the MPAA since 1973, so I know how to renegotiate and rework.
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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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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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Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.
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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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You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.
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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 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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There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.
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I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.
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