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If you want it bad enough, you'll get it.
Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions.
Ballet dancers really know how to enter a room.
The studio was very nervous about 'Raging Bull.'
Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
I did not give Xanax or anything else to my child.
Boxing is insane and, in my opinion, should be banned.
You have to have a great director to make a great movie.
I have always had a certain rhythmic approach to my work.
I never thought I would get married: I'm such a workaholic.
Doing 3D on 'Hugo' was a big learning curve for me, but fun!
Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.
With digital editing, I now can make many, many versions of a scene.
I'm not a big believer in fate, but, boy, I've had a lot of lucky breaks.
When you're a film-maker, sometimes you have to be a slave to continuity.
It's part of your job always as an editor: you always have to drop stuff.
We do documentaries on the history of cinema in between our feature films.
To receive footage that has been shot with editing in mind, it is a blessing.
I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades.
Film, if properly cared for, will last almost 100 years, but digital will not.
I don't think you can be a great director without knowing a lot about editing.
'Raging Bull' was badly received at first. It took 10 years for it to be recognised.
Even though my parents are American, I spent my whole childhood and adolescence abroad.
I realized that there was an actual job of making movies. They weren't created by elves.
Throwing things out is one of the most difficult and important things you ever have to do.
If you want to look young and thin on your birthday. Hang around a bunch of old fat people.
As you can imagine, between Michael Powell and Martin Scorsese, I've had quite a rich life!
I always thought that's the wonderful thing about filmmaking: people see things differently.
I never really understood how movies were made, because it was such a technical accomplishment.
That's the great thing about filmmaking: Things happen you don't know are going to happen at the end.
My family goes way back in New York. So I am a New Yorker; I feel like a New Yorker. It's in my bones.
In the ’70s it was skateboards, in the ’80s it was drugs, in the ’90s it was art, and now it’s my family.
The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part
You have to keep banging away at something until you get it to work. I think women are maybe better at that.
I've learnt so much from every film and every director - a new perspective, a greater appreciation of the art.
Editing is really like plumbing a good deal of the time. You put two things together, and a current runs through it.
Some young filmmakers, unfortunately, don't have the ability to resist attempts to maybe cut their films down unfairly.
I learned so much about the making of Star Wars and that became a real drive for me, right from the time I was 12 or 13.
It's wonderful to work on footage by someone who understands how to get it to cut right, which a lot of directors don't.
Solicitude for material things distracts the soul and divides it. The devil seizes the divided soul and drags it to hell.
In 'Silence,' there was no improvisation at all; really, you're dealing with a script and a 17th century way of speaking.
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
If you are really working on something intensely, your social skills fall away and you are not fit to be brought out into public.
The difference between a film that ends up three hours and a film that is envisioned as three hours is that it's written that way.
I can access footage much quicker, yes. But in terms of living with a film and knowing what's right, digital doesn't do that for you.
When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.
When we were cutting 'Raging Bull,' Martin Scorsese was watching 'The Films of Hoffmann' on a 16-mm print over and over and over again.
Join the Republican party if you cannot abide Democrats. You will probably loathe Republicans just as much, but there are fewer of them.
Jack Cardiff - the greatest cameraman who ever worked in colour - was a lab boy to start with so he knew Technicolor from the inside out.
Having been raised overseas, I wanted to become a diplomat. But the State Department thought I was too 'liberal' to be happy with that job.