#obsess

Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#flying #god #his #howard #howard hughes

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#brothers #dynamics #family #father #i

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#become #becoming #capone #city #crime

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine. ↗

— Andres Serrano

#her #his #i #mine #nothing

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#aimed #also #award #bangladesh #basic

I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive? ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#children #how #i #i am #obsessed

The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

#brief #concept #feature #intelligent #intelligent person

I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it. ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

#art school #ball #ballet #became #because

You become what you think about all day long. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#obsession #inspirational