Who is Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese (/skɔːrˈsɛsi/, Italian: [skorˈseːze; -eːse]; born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. One of the major figures of the New Hollywood era, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant and influential directors in film history. Scorsese's body of work explores themes such as Italian-American identity, Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, faith, machismo, nihilism, crime and tribalism. Many of his films are known for their depiction of violence, and the liberal use of profanity and rock music. In 1990, he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation and in 2017, he introduced the African Film Heritage...Read Full Biography
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- Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.
- I don't like being in houses alone.
- 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.
- Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
- It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
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- Jamie_is_sleepy: hugo directed by martin scorsese: i loved scorsese's little love letter to cinema particularly the works of georges méliès this film actually made me tear up a bit in the end another scorsese hit 8.5/10
- Marquezrick: brando did not have much luck in picking his own projects after "last tango" and apocalypse now. why marlon brando didn't want martin scorsese to make goodfellas
- Kloppholic: martin scorsese’s list of 39 essential foreign films.
