"It’s also true that I might have never……" — Martin Scorsese
"It’s also true that I might have never made Taxi Driver [1976] were it not for the success of Alice [Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, 1974]. The question of commercialism is a source of worry. Must one make a choice, must it be a matter of either setting your sights on winning an Academy Award and becoming a millionaire, or making only the movies you want to make and starving to death?"
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133 Quotes by Martin Scorsese
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I'm in a different chapter of my life. As time goes by and I grow older, I find that I…
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Movies touch our hearts, and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other…
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If you’re looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel.
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Orson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is…
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There are movies that change the whole way in which films are made, like Klute, where Gordon Willis’s photography on…
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I'm often asked by younger filmmakers, 'Why do I need to look at old movies?' I've made a number of…
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The storyboard for me is the way to visualise the entire movie in advance,
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I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.
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We're face-to-face with images all the time in a way that we never have been before. Young people need to…
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An interviewer once asked me to discuss my collaboration with Elmer Bernstein, and precisely why I chose to work with…
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My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.
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The only thing I really wanted was the freedom to be able to get what I want on film. I’ve…
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and…
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We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in…
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like…
— Albert Brooks
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High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year…
— Kyle Chandler
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Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.
— Ray Charles
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You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I…
— Cher
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That best academy, a mother's knee.
— James Russell Lowell
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The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The…
— David Gill
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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain…
— Baruch Spinoza
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When I am dead, let it be said of me: he belonged to no school, to no church, to no…
— Gustave Courbet
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