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I'm not a Hollywood director. I'm an in spite of Hollywood director.

Martin Scorsese

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Martin Scorsese
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 17
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I've been thrown out of schools and fired from jobs. I don't want to work. I can honestly say I haven't done an honest day's work in my life.
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Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.
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What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people.
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More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.
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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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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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I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.
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If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.
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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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