People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.
Martin ScorseseRead
Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
Interpretation
Promoting kindness is essential for a harmonious society.
In this quote, Martin Scorsese suggests that attempting to eliminate a culture or belief system that embodies kindness is detrimental. He highlights the importance of kindness as a fundamental aspect of humanity and warns against the consequences of suppressing such values in any society, including that of China.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of compassion in society.
People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.
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.
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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.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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You can't have occupation and human rights.
Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
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There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are merely trying to occur, they are checking whether the ground of reality can carry them. And they quickly withdraw, fearing to loose their integrity in the frailty of realization.
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