My Favorite Quotes From People That I Know Martin Scorsese Edition by Michael “MJ The Terrible” Johnson:
“Another approval hurdle is done. I am shooting “The Adventures of MJ The Terrible” if it is the last thing I do.” Martin Scorsese
“This is not the hill to fight and die on. This is the hill to proxy fight, and you don’t die on.” Martin Scorsese
“Justice always prevails in the end in, but it may not come in the version of justice we expect.” Martin Scorsese
“Whatever happens, never give up. There is always another way.” Martin Scorsese
“MJ, your mother hung up on me. She told me she didn’t care who I was, Jesus was more important than I am. The word fuck rolls off the tongue easy. I’ll watch it next time. We are doing our best to contact the DOD. I guess they don’t have any outgoing phone lines or something.” Martin Scorsese
“People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.” Martin Scorsese
“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.” Martin Scorsese
“There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.” Martin Scorsese
“If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that’s going faster and faster, we’re spinning off the edge of the universe.” Martin Scorsese
“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.” Martin Scorsese
“As you grow older, you change.” Martin Scorsese
“The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.” Martin Scorsese
“Any film, or to me any creative endeavor, no matter who you’re working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.” Martin Scorsese
“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
“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
“Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god… I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.” Martin Scorsese
“I can’t really envision a time when I’m not shooting something.” Martin Scorsese
“You make a deal. You figure out how much sin you can live with.” Martin Scorsese
“Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out.” Martin Scorsese
“If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?” Martin Scorsese
“On every film you suffer, but on some you really suffer.” Martin Scorsese
“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
“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.” Martin Scorsese
“There’s no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.” Martin Scorsese
“You don’t make pictures for Oscars.” Martin Scorsese
“I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.” Martin Scorsese
“You’ve got to understand when a collaborator isn’t satisfied anymore.” Martin Scorsese
“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.” Martin Scorsese
“All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.” Martin Scorsese
“I mean, music totally comes from your soul.” Martin Scorsese
“I’m very phobic about flying, but I’m also drawn to it.” Martin Scorsese
“The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can’t articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?” Martin Scorsese
“It’s hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don’t know.” Martin Scorsese
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