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In November, Martin Scorsese will turn 81. He's been through addiction, five marriages (and four divorces) and has barely stopped working since 1967. As his 27th movie, "Killers of the Flower Moon," is about to be released, GQ talked to him about getting old, paring down, and letting go. https://flip.it/afEbcX #Movies #Entertainment #MartinScorsese

Interesting piece. “ The book is still being written on the work—all seven magnificent decades of it. But Scorsese knows something now about what happens when you get old. Getting older is a relentless process of paring down. Getting older is an exercise in letting go. Let go of anger: “I’m at the age now where you just—you’ll die.” Let go of fitting in, of going up to Rao’s with important people. Let go of other people’s opinions: “That doesn’t mean you don’t take advice and you don’t discuss and argue, but at a certain point you know what you want to do. And you have no choice.” Let go of the idea that you might someday visit the Acropolis. Let go of the idea that a movie needs a beginning, a middle, and an end: “Maybe the middle’s all around it, you know?”

📖💛 “He would love to go back to school, he said. He would love to read The Divine Comedy: “You have to get through the whole thing, but you need a guide.” He’s read all of James Joyce (besides Finnegans Wake), all of Tolstoy, all of Melville, all of Dostoevsky, but there’s so much he hasn’t read. Take Oblomov, by Ivan Goncharov. A book about a guy who just stays in bed and who doesn’t do anything. “He just wants to exist. Too much trouble falling in love. It’s gonna be painful. Too much trouble having a friendship. And I really want to read that. Because maybe the whole value is…look at the dogs we have. They exist. They don’t sin. You know what I’m saying? It’s like, what if you can get into that space? But at the same time, I want to know about the Akkadians and I wanna know about Cyrus the Great.” nostr:nevent1qqsw67euqa8pmnuz865ddgykstj2u5wrc3n3jumnjpz4cgcx9eg0lmspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qzxthwden5te0wfjkccte9eeks6t5vehhycm99ehkuegprfmhxue69uhkummnw3ezucm0d9hxvatwv35hgtnrdaksz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumr49e4k2qgkwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejqz8thwden5te0dehhxarj94c82c3wwajkcmr0wfjx2u3wdejhgqgcwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3exzarf9e3k7mgpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejszynhwden5te0wp6hyurvv4cxzeewv4esf783dq