"The only thing I really wanted was the freedom to be able to get what I want on film. Iâ€™ve dealt with the MPAA since 1973, so I know how to renegotiate and rework."

-- Martin Scorsese

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“I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.”
“We have North Shore, Hawaii and Lost all there, so they have softball tournaments between the casts. It's hilarious.”
“I've been wanting to do a documentary on the true heart of the groupie ever since I was one. The groupie is just a girl who loves music and loves to be around the people who make it. She is the fan that takes it to the next level to experience the whole shebang.”
“A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.”
“Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.”
“We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is for that very singing that the bird was made, so there is no need to ask why the human mind undertakes such toil in seeking out these secrets of the heavens. ... And just as other animals, and the human body, are sustained by food and drink, so the very spirit of Man, which is something distinct from Man, is nourished, is increased, and in a sense grows up on this diet of knowledge, and is more like the dead than the living if it is touched by no desire for these things.”
“In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended.”
“I write about what I know, what I live, what I observe.”

Source : "Dirty Pretty Thing: Taylor Momsen". Interview with Colleen Nika, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2010.

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