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Martin Scorsese (b. Nov 17, 1942) is an Italian-American filmmaker who, with the help of two gigantic eyebrows living on his forehead has been a driving force in Hollywood for nearly half a century.

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Martin Scorsese said he was terrified of meeting me. He was serious. He had seen Shivers and Rabid and thought they were devastating. I said, ‘Marty, you’re the guy who made Taxi Driver!’
David Cronenberg (via swintons)
I think the immediate connection, when I read [Taxi Driver], was with the anger and the rage, and the loneliness—not being part of a group. I was always on the outside. You grow up in a neighborhood where what a ‘man’ is, quote unquote, is a guy who can go into a room and slam some people around and win … But on the other hand, I heard my father say different things about what a man is; that had to do with being morally strong.
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I’d love to have a bunch of Oscars. But I’m at a point in my life where I’m just happy enough to make the pictures.
Martin Scorsese
I considered it a true cinematic challenge of working with a versatile actor such as Robert De Niro, who moulds himself according to each character. The only other actor who matches his histrionic ability is Al Pacino. -Martin Scorsese

I considered it a true cinematic challenge of working with a versatile actor such as Robert De Niro, who moulds himself according to each character. The only other actor who matches his histrionic ability is Al Pacino.

-Martin Scorsese

The first sexual thing I ever saw was at night: two derelicts performing fellatio on each other and then vomiting it up. I was about thirteen then but I’ll never forget those images. Never forget them.
From Martin Scorsese: A Journey
I will never forget the first time I heard All Things Must Pass, and the overwhelming feeling of taking in that glorious music for the first time. It was like walking into a cathedral. George was making spiritually awake music – we all heard and felt it – and I think that was the reason that he came to occupy a very special place in our lives.
Martin Scorsese on George Harrison’s music.
It’s a film that came from the heart, meaning that it was something of a personal project. Paul Schrader wrote it; he lived those feelings, I lived those feelings, he was able to express it in a certain way and I just became enamored of it. And I fought to get it on the screen, the way he wrote it, the way we envisioned it - Paul, myself, De Niro and everybody involved with the project. -Martin Scorsese on the making of Taxi Driver.

It’s a film that came from the heart, meaning that it was something of a personal project. Paul Schrader wrote it; he lived those feelings, I lived those feelings, he was able to express it in a certain way and I just became enamored of it. And I fought to get it on the screen, the way he wrote it, the way we envisioned it - Paul, myself, De Niro and everybody involved with the project.

-Martin Scorsese on the making of Taxi Driver.

John Ford makes Westerns. We make street movies. Let’s do that.
Scorsese to Joe Pesci before filming Goodfellas
I grew up in the tenements. I lived only half a block away from the Bowery. We saw the dregs, the vagrants, the alcoholics..we saw everything. Most mornings on the way to grammar school, I’d see two bums fighting each other with broken bottles..Blood all over the ground. I had to step around the blood and the bottles - and I’m just eight years old - Martin Scorsese: A Journey

I grew up in the tenements. I lived only half a block away from the Bowery. We saw the dregs, the vagrants, the alcoholics..we saw everything. Most mornings on the way to grammar school, I’d see two bums fighting each other with broken bottles..Blood all over the ground. I had to step around the blood and the bottles - and I’m just eight years old

- Martin Scorsese: A Journey

There are six or seven myths around which all our literature is based.I think there is an anxiety amongst certain film-makers that the thread that connects what we do to these ancient, life-affirming myths is going to snap. Once that disconnect happens, the film is drifting. It’s just a series of noises and effects.
Martin Scorsese on today’s Popcorn Movies.
They have taken away serious film-going and serious film consideration.We have to react against the theme park film, as well made as they are, and as enjoyable as some of them are.
Martin Scorsese on today’s effects-led Blockbusters.
Just wanna pick him up and cuddle him.
Daniel Day-Lewis on his first impression of Martin Scorsese (via daniel-plainview)

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“I didn’t understand what the ring was. I couldn’t interpret it in my life…but I think at that time I was taking it too literally. Ultimately I came to understand that the ring is everywhere. It depends on how much of a fighter you are in life. The hardest opponent you have is yourself.”

- Martin Scorsese

Every time Marty steps on set he brings with him an unmatched knowledge and respect for the art of movie making. He’s transcended his own admiration of movies to become his own unique artist, a master film-maker and a generous patient teacher. It’s hard to believe we’ve only been watching movies for the last one hundred years while other art forms have been around for thousands. As we look back in history, there are those names that truly define their own medium. Picasso, da Vinci, Shakespeare, Beethoven - to name a few, and a thousand years from now as the history of film unfolds there will surely be one name for future generations that is synonymous with master filmmaking and the word “cinema” and that name is Mr. Martin Scorsese
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As a boy with asthma I wasn’t allowed near something green or animals. I couldn’t do sports, so I was taken to the movie theaters pretty often. I became an expert in the western genre. What I couldn’t go near - there it was on the screen.
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