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114 quotes by Martin Scorsese

Martin Charles Scorsese (/skɔrˈsɛzi/; born November 17, 1942) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and film historian. Part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant and influential filmmakers in cinema history. In 1990, he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation. He is a...
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As you grow older, you change.

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I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.

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I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

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I'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself.

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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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Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.

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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.

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You never know how much time you have left.

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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... →

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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... →

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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 -... →

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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... →

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Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is... →

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