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All Quotes by author - Martin Scorsese

" Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people. "

" Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience. "

" Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out. "

" 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 going through. "

" 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. "

" I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew. "

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

" If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah! "

Having A Good Time

" If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script. "

" If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant? "

" I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest. "

" I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction. "

" I'm re-energized by being around people who mean a lot to me. "

" 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. "

" I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days. "

" I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs - is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema. "

" Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The young people today are the 21st century. "

" When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit. "

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