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I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.
Martin Scorsese

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What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people.
Martin Scorsese

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It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
Martin Scorsese

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I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on.
Martin Scorsese

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

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Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
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And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.
Martin Scorsese

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I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening.
Martin Scorsese

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There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
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More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.
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