Scorsese Quotes - Page 2

• Whatever, man. Scorsese thinks I’m awesome

  Jonah

  Men, Thinking

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• In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.

  Alex Cox

  Kitchen, Cameras, Genius

  Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

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• My experience in work, even going to work with Scorsese, is that people always think there's some magic trick. There's no magic trick. The people who are really good at what they do do simple things really, really well.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Simple, Thinking, People

  "Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, and Jared Leto Had to Make Fast Choices for 'Dallas Buyers Club'". Interview with Daniel Holloway, www.backstage.com. October 31, 2013.

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• Martin Scorsese is doing a 3D movie (Hugo Cabret). A lot of amazing filmmakers are. Not just the obvious of Jim Cameron, but Spielberg is doing it and Peter Jackson has worked in it. In the hands of those types of people, it will just keep getting better and better.

  Rob Letterman

  Hands, People, Get Better

  Source: collider.com

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• Tarantino and Jackson is like Scorsese and DeNiro, and their silent communication.

  Walton Goggins

  Communication, Silent, Tarantino

  Source: collider.com

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• I am defined also by Woody Allen’s films and Martin Scorsese and Jim Jarmusch and Julian Schnabel or Almodóvar, or by Guillermo del Toro, Iñárritu, Cuarón. Even if we haven’t worked with them, we are all defined by their filmography.

  Demian Bichir

  Film, Woody, Havens

  "The Tarantino Actor". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 4, 2016.

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• Music was a big thing for me growing up and Scorsese and Tarantino both use music brilliantly in movies. They're probably two of the best at using music.

  Ed Speleers

  Growing Up, Two, Use

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You know, you have Scorsese who worked with De Niro and - or DiCaprio. You have William Wyler who worked with Bette Davis. You have George Cukor who worked with Katharine Hepburn. I just - people get to be friends and then there's a - that's a - you can take risks together and each time out you take a different risk.

  David O. Russell

  People, Risk, Together

  "How Director David O. Russell Discovered 'Joy'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

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• I had this whole issue of doing a crime film in the 2010s. The genre's been mined very, very heavily. Post-Scorsese, post-Tarantino, post-Guy Ritchie, what do you do? I wasn't attracted to pulp so much as all of a sudden I had a pulp problem. I had to find a way to make this interesting, because there's a lot of crime films that come out on VOD every week, and a number of these star Nicolas Cage.

  Paul Schrader

  Stars, Numbers, Issues

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [Martin] Scorsese probably could have directed Schindler's List and [Steven] Spielberg probably could have directed Goodfellas. But it's as much to do with the difference in culture as it is with race.

  Denzel Washington

  Race, Differences, Culture

  Source: www.bellanaija.com

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• I put myself on tape and the cool thing was that Martin Scorsese had never heard of me. He had never seen [Everybody Loves Raymond]. I was just an unknown actor to him. I don't want to sound conceited, like he has to know who I am, but that seemed a little odd. He's a film genius. He doesn't watch sitcoms.

  Ray Romano

  Conceited, Who I Am, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm trying to steal from everybody. So yeah, there's cats that I'm personally affiliated with - Carl Franklin, Paul Thomas Anderson - and others that I don't know personally but their work I'm a big admirer of, like Martin Scorsese. But I'm hoping to come up with a language that is mine, that's specific to my take on this material.

  Don Cheadle

  Cat, Trying, Language

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I've always been drawn to a certain kind of dark aesthetic in cinema and in film, to what's abjected or considered abject. I've been tremendously influenced by noirish cinema whether that's Von Sternberg or Scorsese in the 70s or Lynch, etc.

  Anton Yelchin

  Dark, Cinema, Etc

  Source: www.pasunautre.com

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• There would be brilliant songs, but, as [Bob] Dylan admitted on the recent Martin Scorsese documentary about him (No Direction Home), the specific muse that inspired "It's Alright Ma" would not return.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Home, Would Be

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I'm, like, y'know, I didn't have a problem doing one scene in Dude, Where's My Car? I'm certainly not going to have a problem doing one scene in a [Martin] Scorsese movie!

  Brent Spiner

  Car, Problem, Scene

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It was a fabulous experience shooting [in the Aviator], working with Leo [DiCaprio] and Danny Huston in the scene. It was great. I think what was most eye-opening about it was that [Martin] Scorsese was just like any good director you work with.

  Brent Spiner

  Eye, Thinking, Shooting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [Martin Scorsese ] basically works just like any other director. You work the scene, you try to find what's best in it and make it work. That's what it was like.

  Brent Spiner

  Trying, Directors, Scene

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think they [Martin Scorsese, Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra] liked my honesty. My personality. For that, they always treated me great. I, in turn, treated them great. No secret about it. My being who I am - that is that.

  Don Rickles

  Honesty, Thinking, Who I Am

  Source: glamorosi.blogspot.com

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• John Logan is maybe the No. 1 screenwriter in the world today, not to mention that he won a Tony for Best Play for Red. So he may just be the best writer period right now. He wrote The Aviator, and I was in New York doing a play, and he asked if they would see me for the film, just meet with me. 'Cause that's what Martin Scorsese does.

  Brent Spiner

  New York, Play, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to it. Except maybe having kids.

  Jonah Hill

  Dream, Mean, Kids

  "Jonah Hill: ‘Being Shot In Slow Motion Doing Cocaine By Martin Scorsese’ Was Acting Dream" by Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2013.

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• Working with Scorsese was an absolute dream, and one of my favourite ever jobs was 'Beowulf' because it was just pure acting. Your imagination explodes as you try to imagine you're fighting a dragon or whatever.

  Ray Winstone

  Dream, Jobs, Fighting

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• Working on 'The Last Waltz' introduced me to Martin Scorsese, and I had been a movie bug since I was a young kid.

  Robbie Robertson

  Kids, Lasts, Bugs

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• I was kind of a little disappointed when they started building a competition between Marty (Martin Scorsese) and me. I have the greatest respect for him and all the films he's done over the years.

  Clint Eastwood

  Years, Competition, Done

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• Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon. You come from a happy family; you want to create a happy family. And in the same breath, I'd like to be on stage at England's National Theatre, doing Miller and Chekhov. Give me a Sam Mendes/Tennessee Williams combination-that would be glorious. And to be making some Oscar-worthy movies with Scorsese. I'm always looking for the hard road. That way, you remain interested and interesting. Hopefully.

  Emilia Clarke

  Children, Giving, Interesting

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• One of the things I've discovered at my age is I must have enchantment. And that was not clear to me in my earlier years. When I look at my favorite films, the Frank Capra - even Scorsese, even 'Goodfellas,' what makes that movie so remarkable is there's enchantment in their world.

  David O. Russell

  Years, Age, Enchantment

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