Asif Kapadia quote: "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."

While still a young student at film school, I was lucky enough to get a golden ticket to a Martin Sc...
ASIF KAPADIA

Our professor was Marty Scorsese. Marty was a graduate student, or Mr. Scorsese, which is what I had...
BILLY CRYSTAL

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.
DOLLY PARTON

Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his...
IRWIN WINKLER

The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER

I had tutors, but education was just not a priority.
CHRISTIAN SLATER

Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grand...
CATE BLANCHETT

I said to Martin Scorsese, 'When are you going to make another film with a woman at the center?&...
CATE BLANCHETT

When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese ...
ROB LOWE

He knew that in film there was power, and he was the man working the film, and he knew he was good a...
DAVID HALBERSTAM

I was out with some friends; and wisdom was there. He approached me, and asked if He could join me. ...
SUSIE L HILL

I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were an...
SAM RAIMI

I was kind of a little disappointed when they started building a competition between Marty (Martin S...
CLINT EASTWOOD

I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock,...
LAURA DERN

I loved American filmmakers when I was growing up. I didn't get to film school or anything. I wa...
PAUL HAGGIS

I worked with the best directors - Martin Scorsese, John Huston, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock. Alfr...
HARRY DEAN STANTON

If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o...
DEYTH BANGER

Working on 'The Last Waltz' introduced me to Martin Scorsese, and I had been a movie bug sin...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON

I met Lana in her final years and liked her a great deal. We got along really well. She said if ther...
SHARON STONE

And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it?
...
No Face... a pe...
DEYTH BANGER

Martin Scorsese is one of the great filmmakers of all time.
ROB REINER

It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of t...
JOHN SERGEANT WISE

Normally, it?s not healthy when a father tutors their own adult children. Sid?s sons all called me U...
DICK HEIMANN

I was there early. I think I was reading Atlas Shrugged . He got there, we ordered coffee. He was a ...
BRANDON ROUTH

I got really into Martin Scorsese as a teenager, so then it was kind of the whole reason I wanted to...
ADAM SCOTT

[I regret turning down the lead role in] Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, ... Who is this Martin Sco...
ELLEN BURSTYN

For him, there was nothing that was not normal. He asked for a product that was given to him, and he...
OLIVIER LAPOINTE

He looked at the viewscreen and couldn’t believe it. If the other ship were any closer, then it wo...
CHRISTINA ENGELA

His august presence in the film was decided from day one, when we jointly decided to acquire the rem...
HARISH DAYANI

Working with Ridley is working with one of the great filmmakers and one of the great raconteurs. You...
JOHN LOGAN

If Martin Scorsese thinks you stink, you stink.
JOHN HEARD

She asked if I loved another woman, so I answered honestly and said, “Dinner was great, but I coul...
DARK JAR TIN ZOO

He's quite a softly spoken and unassertive man who changes over the course of the film, but what I l...
HARRY POTTER

The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA

I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.
GAEL GARCIA BERNAL

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese onc...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

We were talking recently, and he asked me how fall camp was and if it was easy. I said its still a...
PAUL FISCHER

After the first day, he went back over to the range and hit balls. Then he worked on his short game ...
DON PETERSON

The weapon he held in his sweaty grip was one of a small consignment of prototypes received at the l...
CHRISTINA ENGELA

My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a ...
IVAN REITMAN

Growing up in this business and truly wanting to be a part of the world of film, I'm a truly privile...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO

I haven't detected the slightest hint of Dylan intervening or even wishing to intervene in the way t...
ANTHONY WALL

And certainly We sent apostles before you: there are some of them that We have mentioned to you and ...
QURAN

Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If ...
LATA MANGESHKAR

Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA

There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had th...
HAROLD PINTER

Saddam Hussein was given every opportunity to comply, but he chose continued defiance, even after be...
FREDERICK JONES

I met a hustler at a dinner party. He had been invited because I was looking for an adviser to help ...
JOHN SCHLESINGER

It was a great show. But, at the same time, there was a lot of stuff going on in my life and I wasn'...
ANDY BELL

When I met Bono at the Cannes Film festival while I was there for the film 'United 93,' he s...
DAVID ALAN BASCHE

When I was in Grade 9, there was an election for high school president, and one of the candidates to...
MARTIN O'MALLEY

I was a student at SF State, and I honestly didn't know where I was headed. I thought maybe some...
LISA CHOLODENKO

I had to comes to terms with that with Martin Scorsese,
DAVID CRONENBERG

Originally my father was a medical student. He suddenly gave up his studies and walked out to become...
GLYNIS JOHNS

There was an employee who was asked to leave for taking drugs at a company function. That is totally...
BILL DUNN

The bulkheads were close together, the ceilings low above their helmets. Not much space in there to ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA

It shouldn't have mattered, not when Miel and the other girls in his class wore jeans more than they...
ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE

I'm a De Niro fan. I went eleven years without seeing a movie; the last one before that, Februar...
AUGUST WILSON

He was probably one of the most hard-working, caring people you'd ever meet. He had a great degree o...
BOB MCDONALD

One of the first things he said to me was, 'I used to ride your skateboards in the '80s.' Heath want...
STACY PERALTA

There was no studio involved when we made 'Stargate.' It was financed through Le Studio Cana...
DEAN DEVLIN

Belushi was one of my very first heroes. At a time when film, television, and music were undergoing ...
R. J. CUTLER

Instead, every precaution was taken not to violate his rights. Remember, many administrators have no...
JAMES C. DOBSON

He was a fine referee, but what I am going to remember most is that he was a great human being. He d...
JEAN BELIVEAU

Clearly any film company that makes a film is always going to talk about sequels particularly if the...
JENNY AGUTTER

I was waiting for a train at Waverley Station in Edinburgh. My knee was hurting, so I asked a young ...
MIRIAM MARGOLYES

I thought he played pretty well; he did a lot of things we asked him to do. No. 1, he had a lot of p...
TIM LAPPANO

But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER

What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER

We watched some film and saw there was a little bit of an opening there.
QUINTIN MIKELL

There will be discussion before and after the film. The story happened in 1923, but was not told unt...
GERALD DOYLE

He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original...
BILLE AUGUST

[After the viewing of the film, the crowd once again headed to The Fly for an after party. The atmos...
ANNE MARIE

The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of...
SHMUEL YOSEF AGNON

He was in the middle of the field. On the one he missed, he was at an angle and there was a hump in ...
GARY HOUSEHOLDER

We were just hanging out in our rooms and there was a knock on the door. When we opened it there was...
LIZ BOWDEN

We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese.
MATT STONE

There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in...
BEN KINGSLEY

Scorsese's been a hero of mine since I was young. If you saw 'Swingers,' you know I was ...
JON FAVREAU

She said if there was a film to be made on her life, then I was her choice.
SHARON STONE

He was an individualist if there ever was one. He was his own person.
JIM GRAHAM

When Raghavendra Rao garu approached me to do a film on Lord Venkateswara, my initial response was &...
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA

I liked 'The Help,' and I love Viola Davis. But I didn't think that film was a great fil...
ROBERT OSBORNE

When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me...
LAURA HARRING

I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years and really thought I was going to ...
SCOTT ADSIT

So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of ...
FAY WRAY

The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil...
CHRISTINA ENGELA

Thank you to Martin Scorsese - I hope my son will marry your daughter.
CATE BLANCHETT

It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the ...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY

When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
GABRIEL MANN

He was overzealous, he was going to question this student and if he didn't get a chance to question ...
JOHN WEAVER

He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original...
BILLE AUGUST

He was a beloved coach, teacher and friend; some of the students were in a state of shock. Yes, Y.C....
BOB JENKINS

There was one woman at a press junket before the film was released who was very upset over the thing...
BOB SAGET

I think the only time I doubted myself was my senior year in high school. I was not offered a Divisi...
DOUG FLUTIE

The only question that got any traction was when he asked Martin what he did. Martin tersely replied...
SCOTT MEYER

I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent ...
IRIS CHANG

It was hard to comprehend. We weren't expecting make it to the final. After it was over, we were sho...
ETHAN DICKSON

I really thought Roy was going to retire after the Johnson fight. That's what he told me, and I beli...
ALTON MERKERSON

Chris' name was the first name mentioned by everyone. That just speaks volumes for how he's respecte...
DON WADDELL

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.

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Asif Kapadia

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.

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