Ed Martin Quotes

Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.

Well the thing is that the New York of 1846 to 1862 was very different from downtown New York now. Really nothing from that period still exists in New York.

I don't like being in houses alone.

As you grow older, you change.

I still dislike phones, yeah!

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 think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all.

It’s often overlooked. It’s labor. That’s at the heart of #‎ collaboration .

If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.

I've been to North Africa many times.

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.

My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.

I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.

Vic Armstrong is, of course, a legend

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

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.

The real truth, I thought, in terms of what faith is and what Christianity is.

I accept all awards. I like them.

I hate the standard of stupid and selfish driving we have in this country. We are the worst I've come across.

Are there any celebs I'd like to meet? I'd love to meet the Dalai Lama.

I don't live in London - I'm based in Norfolk and have a place in Scotland.

No matter what is going on, everything is grace.

I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.

Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.

I act because I can't seem to live with myself if I do not. I don't know any other way to be. It isn't something you can explain; it is just something that you do; it is something that you are.

I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.

I sincerely believe that everything - everything - is grace, and you have to stick around long enough to see it through. I'm a very optimistic person.

I love my country enough to suffer its wrath.

Oh you only fight the fights you can win? You fight the fights that need fighting!

I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.

I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.

I think I'm known as a liberal democrat and Hispanic and a practicing Catholic, but I never really went out of my way specifically to play a president or any kind of leader.

Golf is fundamentally about being honest. I see people hit eight shots and tell me they shot five. I never say a word. It is a reminder to me of what is at stake.

The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.

Aaron Sorkin very sticky about using precise language. It's in his contract: you have to use what he writes!

I think [Bush] would like to hand his father Saddam Hussein's head and win his approval for what happened after the Gulf War.

I think he [President Clinton] was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.

I think most actors rarely get the opportunity to play something really close to you and speaks to something you deeply believe.

The most satisfying thing in my life and my career is to work with my children.

Being the youngest of five, you're adored, you're fueled with confidence.

I've done lots of improv things but not a whole movie.

I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.

Ill give you an idea of how Jewish Mel Brooks is: Thats a nose job.

When you start a new project and they say, "Your director is going to be Joe Blo," you're hoping that Joe Blo will be the next Martin Scorsese, but it doesn't always work out that way.

You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, 'No'.

Whether arrogantly or what, I view myself simply as an actor.

Think through whom you are trying to reach. Tailor what you do and how you do it to appeal to those communities.

The challenges some European economies have are such that it makes it very difficult for them. You have to go where the growth is.

The technology is already incredible and will improve massively in the next few years. Think about what you could do.