American - Director | November 17, 1942 -
I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.
Martin Scorsese
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The young people today are the 21st century.
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It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know.
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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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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.
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The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.
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Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.
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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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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.
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As a child I had terrible asthma.
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My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.
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A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.
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