People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.
Martin ScorseseRead
There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.
Interpretation
Disappointment can be transformed into a source of renewal and strength.
In this quote, Martin Scorsese suggests that while disappointment is often perceived as a negative experience, it can actually serve a transformative purpose. By facing and embracing disappointment, individuals may find the opportunity to rejuvenate themselves, gain new insights, and emerge stronger and more motivated than before.
In practice
In a motivational speech about resilience in the face of failure.
People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.
Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.
I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.
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.
Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.
If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
All living beings have experience of pleasure and pain, and we are among them. What makes human beings different is that we have a powerful intelligence and a much greater ability to achieve happiness and avoid suffering. Real happiness and friendship come not from money or even knowledge, but from warm-heartednes s. Once we recognize this we will be more inclined to cultivate it.
There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
You have to trust yourself, not research. Not testing. Testing helps, but you have to trust your own taste. If your taste says something isn't any good, don't let research rationalize that out of its own truth.
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