Feel Quotes

I still dislike phones, yeah!

Martin Scorsese

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I'm an older generation.

Martin Scorsese

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As a child I had terrible asthma.

Martin Scorsese

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I don't like being in houses alone.

Martin Scorsese

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There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

Martin Scorsese

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I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

Martin Scorsese

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On every film you suffer, but on some you really suffer.

Martin Scorsese

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You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore.

Martin Scorsese

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I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.

Martin Scorsese

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The best I can do is to make a film every two years.

Martin Scorsese

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I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.

Martin Scorsese

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I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.

Martin Scorsese

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Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

Martin Scorsese

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I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

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People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

Martin Scorsese

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Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them.

Martin Scorsese

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Some of my films are known for the depiction of violence. I don't have anything to prove with that any more.

Martin Scorsese

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Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

Martin Scorsese

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Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

Martin Scorsese

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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.

Martin Scorsese

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I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.

Martin Scorsese

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I mean I have a project that I have been wanting to make for quite a while now; and basically, it's a story of my parents growing up in the Lower East Side.

Martin Scorsese

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I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all.

Martin Scorsese

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Can a film really change anything? I mean, what was the last time? Maybe the Italian neo-realists, where they became the voice and the heart and the soul of Italy, a nation that had been destroyed. I don't know.

Martin Scorsese

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The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.

Martin Scorsese

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We can't keep thinking in a limited way about what cinema is. We still don't know what cinema is. Maybe cinema could only really apply to the past or the first 100 years, when people actually went to a theater to see a film, you see?

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I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.

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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.

Martin Scorsese

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I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me.

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