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I'm an older generation. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#i #older #older generation

I've been to North Africa many times. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#been #i #many #north #north africa

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant? ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#food #go #italian #italian food #mother

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#did #everything #family #gets #gods

It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#i #know #new #new stuff #stuff

Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence? ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#element #existence #important #important element #most

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#father #forty #fourth #gangs #had

Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy. ↗

— Izabella Scorupco

#biggest dream #comedy #dream #romantic #romantic comedy

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#become #becoming #capone #city #crime

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#alone #anything #been #good #happening