New york Quotes by Martin Scorsese

8 New york quotes by Martin Scorsese

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Martin Scorsese’s cinematic eye translates into potent observations. These eight short quotes distill his love and critique of New York, delivering a director’s perspective in a bite‑size format.

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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 - that's…

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All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.

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One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the…

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My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs,…

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I'm obsessed with New York. I just find it so remarkable. You really treasure this city when you go to different countries…

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Vertigo is probably my favourite Hitchcock film and probably one of my favourite films of all time. It's a film that I'm…

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Well the thing is that the New York of 1846 to 1862 was very different from downtown New York now. Really nothing…

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I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here…

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