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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.

Martin Scorsese

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Martin Scorsese
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 17
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