{"author":"Martin Scorsese","author_id":"Martin+Scorsese","total_quotes":18,"quotes":[{"text":"The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.","author":"Martin Scorsese","tags":["body","know","matter "],"id":20361,"author_id":"Martin+Scorsese"},{"text":"I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.","author":"Martin Scorsese","tags":["love","fall","studying "],"id":47136,"author_id":"Martin+Scorsese"},{"text":"I'm sad to see celluloid go, there's no doubt. But, you know, nitrate went, by the way, in 1971. If you ever saw a nitrate print of a silent film and then saw an acetate print, you'd see a big difference, but nobody remembers anymore. The acetate print is what we have. Maybe. Now it's digital.","author":"Martin Scorsese","tags":["digital","doubt","know "],"id":89516,"author_id":"Martin+Scorsese"},{"text":"There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.","author":"Martin Scorsese","tags":["world","help","remember "],"id":135658,"author_id":"Martin+Scorsese"},{"text":"I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.","author":"Martin Scorsese","tags":["mind","peace of mind","know "],"id":147846,"author_id":"Martin+Scorsese"},{"text":"If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?","author":"Martin Scorsese","tags":["mother","restaurant","why "],"id":161104,"author_id":"Martin+Scorsese"},{"text":"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.","author":"Martin Scorsese","tags":["cinema","matter","frame "],"id":165174,"author_id":"Martin+Scorsese"},{"text":"Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.","author":"Martin Scorsese","tags":["creative","me","you "],"id":174353,"author_id":"Martin+Scorsese"},{"text":"Movies touch our hearts and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places, they open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our life time, we need to keep them alive.","author":"Martin Scorsese","tags":["movies"],"id":176937,"author_id":"Martin+Scorsese"},{"text":"[Luchino] Visconti came from the Milanese branch of one of Europe’s oldest families, whose roots can be traced back to the early 13th century. He might have appeared as a character in one of his own films about the aristocracy, such as Senso or The Leopard – that’s the life he was born into. But at a certain point in the 1930s, his passion for theatre, opera and the cinema set him on a radically different path.(...)He has often been referred to as a great political artist, but that’s too limiting and frozen a description. His sense of European history was vast and he knew the lives of the rich and powerful first hand – but at a certain point he became drawn to understand the other side of life, that of the poor and powerless. He had a strong sense of the particular manner in which absolutely everyone, from the Sicilian fishermen in his neorealist classic La Terra Trema to the Venetian aristocrats in Senso, was affected by the grand movements of history.","author":"Martin Scorsese","tags":["cinema","film","luchino-visconti"],"id":187897,"author_id":"Martin+Scorsese"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}