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I think if you think of yourself as religious and if you're given a gift, some may not think it's that great a gift - some critics. but others might, you know. so you say, look - whether it's good, bad or indifferent, this is what i do.

-Martin Scorsese

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I Think If You Think Of Yourself

Martin Scorsese

I think if you think of yourself as religious and if you're given a gift, some may not think it's that great a gift - some critics. but others might, you know. so you say, look - whether it's good, bad or indifferent, this is what i do.

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I read reviews of critics i respect and feel i can learn something from. right now there are a lot of bottom-feeder critics who just have access to a computer and don't necessarily have an academic or cinema background that i can detect, so i tend to ignore that and stay with the same top-tier critics that i've come to respect. i like reading a good review - it doesn't have to be favorable, but a well-thought-out one - because i very much appreciate the relationship of directors and critics.

I'm very religious, you know. now, ok, if by 'religious', you mean that i go to church every sunday, read the bible faithfully, and i listen to debbie boone, umm, i'm not religious in that sense... but if by 'religious' you mean that i love others and try to help them whenever possible... again, no. but if by 'religious' you mean that i like to eat coleslaw... yeah, ok, ok!

Let others lead small lives, but not you. let others argue over small things, let them complain over what might have been, but not you. let others cry over small hurts, let them be discouraged, let them be revengeful and vindictive, but not you. let others leave their future in someone else's hands, let them become materialistic and empty, but not you. let others become ungrateful and stop praying, but not you! let others give up, but not you! for you know in whom you believe and you know that he is always able. now, that's you!

In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. one should be indifferent to nothing.

To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. our tiny sliver of time is our gift of life. it is our only life. the universe will go on, indifferent to our brief existence, but while we are here we touch not just part of that vastness, but also the lives around us. life is the gift each of us has been given. each life is our own and no one else's. it is precious beyond all counting. it is the greatest value we can have. cherish it for what it truly is..... your life is yours alone. rise up and live it.

No, i'm not religious, i'm sorry to say. but i was once and shall be again. there is no time now to be religious." "no time. does it need time to be religious?" "oh, yes. to be religious you must have time and, even more, independence of time. you can't be religious in earnest and at the same time live in actual things and still take them seriously, time and money and the odéon bar and all that.

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The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. it is not a political or religious solution. it's the ability to love each other. that's the only solution i see.

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