American - Director | November 17, 1942 -
I think all of us, under certain circumstances, could be capable of some very despicable acts. And that's why, over the years, in my movies I've had characters who didn't care what people thought about them. We try to be as true to them as possible and maybe see part of ourselves in there that we may not like.
Martin Scorsese
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It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
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My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.
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I'm re-energized by being around people who mean a lot to me.
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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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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 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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You never know how much time you have left.
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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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I've always liked 3D.
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Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.
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Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
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