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Martin Scorsese

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born

November 17, 1942 in New York, New York, The United States

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male

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Entertainment, Arts & Photography

influences

Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

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Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese is an American Academy Award-winning film director, writer, and producer. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese is president of the Film Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to film preservation and the prevention of the decaying of motion picture film stock.

Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, machismo, and the violence endemic in American society. Scorsese is widely considered to be on...more

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Books by Martin Scorsese

Average rating: 4.12 · 1,194 ratings · 181 reviews · 51 distinct works

	GoodFellas by Martin Scorsese, Nicholas Pileggi 4.12 avg rating — 84 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Conversations With Scorsese by Martin Scorsese, Richard Schickel 3.93 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies by Martin Scorsese, Michael Henry Wilson 4.41 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Martin Scorsese: Interviews by Martin Scorsese, Peter Brunette 4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Wiseguy: The 25th Anniversary Edition by Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese 4.07 avg rating — 1,976 ratings — published 1985 — 17 editions	My rating:
	The Gangs of New York by Martin Scorsese, Mario Tursi (Editor) 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	The Age of Innocence: A Portrait of the Film Based on the Novel by Edith Wharton by Martin Scorsese, Jay Cocks 4.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Scorsese on Scorsese by David Thompson, Ian Christie 4.06 avg rating — 253 ratings — published 1989 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Il bello del mio mestiere. Scritti sul cinema by Martin Scorsese, Andreina Lombardi Bom (Translator) 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	My rating:
	رفقای خوب by Martin Scorsese, ویدا مشایخی (مترجم) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	My rating:

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Quotes by Martin Scorsese

“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out”
― Martin Scorsese

tags: cinema , film , filmmaking , movies

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“I would have practically done all my films in 3D. There is something that 3D gives to the picture that takes you into another land and you stay there and it’s a good place to be. (…) It’s like seeing a moving sculpture of the actor and it’s almost like a combination of theater and film combined and it immerses you in the story more. I saw audiences care about the people more. The minute it started people wanted three things: color, sound and depth. You want to recreate life.”
― Martin Scorsese

tags: cinema

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“Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion.”
― Martin Scorsese

tags: peace

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