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“I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.”
-- Martin Scorsese

#Movie Love #Whole Life
“When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number of films and a bunch of television shows that dealt with the mythology of the underworld from that period.”
-- Martin Scorsese

#Growing Up #Numbers #Culture
“There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.”
-- Martin Scorsese

#Simple
“During Prohibition, Atlantic City created the idea of the speakeasy, which turned into nightclubs and that extraordinary political complexity and corruption coming out of New Jersey at the time. The long hand that they had-and maybe still do-even had to do with presidential elections.”
-- Martin Scorsese

#Hands #Cities #Ideas
“Violence is not the answer, it doesnâ€™t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion.”
-- Martin Scorsese

#Compassion #Answers #World
“The vampire thing always works for some reason. Always works.”
-- Martin Scorsese

#Vampire #Reason
“DAYS THAT I'LL REMEMBER is a lovingly assembled and beautifully written collection of conversations, observations, and memories of music, friendship, and days gone by. It's good to be back again with John Lennon, his beloved Yoko Ono, and his trusted chronicler and friend Jonathan Cott.”
-- Martin Scorsese

#Memories #Gone #Beloved
“I do prefer doing more takes. There's something very organic that comes from the first take, but certain things come out. More details come out, in the way another actor says something. It's always this investigative process. You come further and further to the truth, the more you escalate. I like to do a lot of takes. I have a hunger for it. I like to see what there is to discover in a scene, that hasn't been thought of.”
-- Martin Scorsese

#Actors #Way #Firsts
“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

#Cinema #World #Needs
“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.”
-- Martin Scorsese

#Movie #Gambling #Cinema
“When everything is added up, the frequent blows weighted against the sporadic triumphs, this is I have to say not just a vocation, it's a great gift. But you also know this, for your work, for your passion, every day is a rededication. Painters, dancers, actors, writers, filmmakers. It's the same for all of you, all of us. Every step is a first step. Every brush stroke is a test. Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. So, let the learning continue.”
-- Martin Scorsese

#School #Passion #Blow
“If youâ€™re looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel.”
-- Martin Scorsese

#America #Culture #Looks
“I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.”
-- Martin Scorsese

#Fall #Empires #Sowing
“The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.”
-- Martin Scorsese

#Artist #Giants #Fit
“We're face-to-face with images all the time in a way that we never have been before. Young people need to understand that not all images are out there to be consumed like, you know, fast food and then forgotten. We need to educate them to understand the difference between moving images that engage their humanity and their intelligence, and moving images that are just selling them something.”
-- Martin Scorsese

#Moving #Differences #People
“I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.”
-- Martin Scorsese

#Generations #Film #Realizing
“There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.”
-- Martin Scorsese

#Directors #Old Time #Wanted
“There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.”
-- Martin Scorsese

#Fighting #Two #Knowing
“Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.”
-- Martin Scorsese

#Editing #Shooting #Sometimes
“There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.”
-- Martin Scorsese

#War #People #Holocaust
“Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that high?”
-- Martin Scorsese

#Looks #Gazing #Film
“Iâ€™m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.”
-- Martin Scorsese

#Way #Looks #Film
“When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.”
-- Martin Scorsese

#Jobs #Play #Film
“Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.”
-- Martin Scorsese

#Soundtracks #Popular Music
“If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?”
-- Martin Scorsese

#Mother #Italian #Restaurants
“If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!”
-- Martin Scorsese

#Complaining #Good Times #Having A Good Time
“The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.”
-- Martin Scorsese

#Artist #Sight #Cinema
“Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.”
-- Martin Scorsese

#People #Way
“Basically, you make another movie, and another, and hopefully you feel good about every picture you make. And you say, 'My name is on that. I did that. It's OK.' But don't get me wrong, I still get excited by it all. That, I hope, will never disappear.”
-- Martin Scorsese

#Names #Feel Good #Excited
“I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.”
-- Martin Scorsese

#Italian #Numbers #Pieces

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