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If Martin Scorsese thinks you stink, you stink. -- John Heard
Martin Scorsese is one of the great filmmakers of all time. -- Rob Reiner
We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese. -- Matt Stone
When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie. -- Rob Lowe
It's so fun to hear the reaction from Martin Scorsese as he sees you nude for the first time. -- Henry Zebrowski
Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does. -- Nathaniel Philbrick
I said to Martin Scorsese, 'When are you going to make another film with a woman at the center?' -- Cate Blanchett
I did 'Gangs of New York' with Martin Scorsese, and they used to call me 'Little Joe Pesci' on the set. -- Stephen Graham
I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
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
I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food. -- Alton Brown
Leo couldn't deliver Mr. Martin Scorsese his Oscar with 'The Aviator', but I will go on record to say I will do so in 'The Departed'. -- Anthony Anderson
The question I always ask is: 'Where are all the women directors in America?' You know, where's the female Martin Scorsese, the female David Lynch? -- Gillian Armstrong
Acting's fine if the script's written by Paddy Chayefsky and Martin Scorsese directs it, but unless you have something like that, I don't really enjoy acting. -- Jeff Garlin
I love 'Goodfellas' because it's a great movie - it's funny and there is action at perfect points. I just think Martin Scorsese makes everyone look really cool. -- Booboo Stewart
What always made me proud - almost blushing with pride - is that Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg all told me that 'The Conformist' is their first modern influence. -- Bernardo Bertolucci
While still a young student at film school, I was lucky enough to get a golden ticket to a Martin Scorsese master class at BAFTA in Piccadilly: fancy, but technically still 'the flicks'. -- Asif Kapadia
If Martin Scorsese calls, I am available. And then there the ones, well, you can just run down the list - any of those Oscar-nominated films, they have amazing directors across the board. -- Timothy Olyphant
There is really no one who hasn't made mistakes in their career. I'm always shocked that people would be so surprised that I might make mistakes. Martin Scorsese has made mistakes - why can't I? -- James Corden
Ooh, I'd love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something... I don't know! -- Cara Delevingne
You're only as good as your body of work, and everybody has issues, whether it's Steven Spielberg or Martin Scorsese. I'm not comparing myself to those guys, but you learn more from the misses than the hits. -- Todd Phillips
Well into the '40s, it wasn't uncommon for big-budget Hollywood movies to contain little or no underscoring, and many of today's directors, following the lead of Martin Scorsese in 'GoodFellas,' accompany their films with pop records, not original music. -- Terry Teachout
Working with Ridley is working with one of the great filmmakers and one of the great raconteurs. You know, it's like, a dinner with Ridley Scott or a dinner with Martin Scorsese? You just want to cut your arm off to get those. -- John Logan
Hollywood is a wonderful machine for making big movies. In France, we make smaller and more personal films, but if things keep changing, this will disappear. The industry in Italy is practically gone. Cinecitta now is used mostly by filmmakers from others places, like Martin Scorsese. -- Ludivine Sagnier
Martin Scorsese was being given an honorary doctorate, and one of the tutors asked if there was a student film he particularly liked. He mentioned our film. There was a dinner after the final show just for the tutors, but I was smuggled in to meet Scorsese over dessert. -- Asif Kapadia
Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it. -- Cate Blanchett
Any time someone says you have an opportunity to work with Martin Scorsese you jump at the chance. -- Mark Wahlberg
It's tough to get any film made, even if you're Martin Scorsese. It's just hard to get films made. -- Amy Sherman-Palladino
I would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don't know if I'll live that long. -- Meryl Streep
Leo couldnt deliver Mr. Martin Scorsese his Oscar with The Aviator, but I will go on record to say I will do so in The Departed. -- Anthony Anderson
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
[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
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
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
Producing, for me anyway, it's coming up with material. It's sitting down with you know the likes of Martin Scorsese, Johnny Depp, Michael Mann and talking about a movie and really creating something from nothing. -- Graham King
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
I am defined also by Woody Allen's films and Martin Scorsese and Jim Jarmusch and Julian Schnabel or AlmodÃ³var, or by Guillermo del Toro, IÃ±Ã¡rritu, CuarÃ³n. Even if we haven't worked with them, we are all defined by their filmography. -- Demian Bichir
When you start a new project and they say, "Your director is going to be Joe Blo," you're hoping that Joe Blo will be the next Martin Scorsese, but it doesn't always work out that way. -- Martin Short
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
[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

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