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" I'm re-energized by being around people who mean a lot to me. "
Martin Scorsese
Being
Who
People
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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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" 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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" If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant? "
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" I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction. "
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Studying
" If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah! "
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Having A Good Time
Having
Good
" 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. "
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Open
Within
" On every film you suffer, but on some you really suffer. "
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Every
Film
Suffer
" 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. "
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Wanted
" 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. "
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Money
Financial
Rest
" Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience. "
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Creative
Experience
Matter
" Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out. "
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Movies
Matter
Frame
" The young people today are the 21st century. "
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Today
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People
" 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. "
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Money
Fight
Criticism
" 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. "
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Understand
Actor
Year
" 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. "
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Live
Time
Growing Up
" 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
Lose
Relationship
Body
" I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest. "
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Just
Ordinary
Parish
" Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence? "
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Most
People
Important
" I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind. "
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Some
Know
Mind
" 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. "
Martin Scorsese
Financial
Capitalism
Hero
" 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. "
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People
Movies
Care
" There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard. "
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Simple
Thing
Hard
" Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people. "
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Alcohol
Class
Working
" 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. "
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Doing
Cinema
Best