Mardik Martin is in the elite group of screenwriters on WGA's list of 101 Greatest Screenplays ever written. He immigrated to the United States from Iraq to attend 'New York University'. He won the Mahler award and graduated with a Master's degree in Screenwriting in 1968, then went on to teach at NYU from 1968 to 1973. Mardik moved to Hollywood ...
I never had to cry over spilled milk. I spilled milk, but I didn't cry over it. That's part of life.
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If you're a shrinking violet who sits in the corner, no one's going to give a shit about you. You've got to present yourself.
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You shouldn't be thinking when you're watching a movie, you should be feeling. "Oh, that's a lovely shot, blue horizon..." That means the movie sucks.
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Fact
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Mardik Martin is an American citizen of Armenian descent.
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Screenwriter Mardik Martin co-wrote Mean Streets (1973), New York, New York (1977) and Raging Bull (1980) for director Martin Scorsese. In addition Martin wrote or co-wrote the treatments for three of Scorsese's early documentary projects: Italianamerican (1974) , The Last Waltz (1978) and American Boy: A Profile of: Steven Prince (1978). Scorsese and Martin were both film students at NYU and started their long-lasting collaboration in 1964 with the student short film It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964). In 2014 Scorsese met again with Martin and director Fatih Akin to see a version of The Cut (2014), their first meeting in over a decade. Scorsese is quoted as saying: "Fatih Akin's The Cut (2014) is a genuine, hand-made epic, of the type that people just don't make anymore. In other words, a deeply personal response to a tragic historical episode, that has great intensity, beauty and sweeping grandeur. This picture is very precious to me, on many levels.".
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Screenwriter Mardik Martin is an American citizen of Armenian descent. Director and screenwriter Fatih Akin is a German citizen of Turkish descent. The Cut (2014) represents the first collaboration between an Armenian and a Turkish screenwriter on a feature film about the Armenian Genocide in film history.
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Since 2014 Mardik Martin, M.A. is a Professor at the 'University of Southern California (USC) - School of Cinematic Arts' in Los Angeles. Since 1990 he was a Senior Lecturer in Screenwriting.
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Mardik Martin served as a script doctor for numerous Hollywood screenplays and film productions.
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Mardik Martin graduated with a Master's degree in Screenwriting from New York University (NYU) in 1968.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Cut
2014/I
co-writer
Mardik: Baghdad to Hollywood
2008
Documentary writer
Raging Bull
1980
screenplay
American Boy: A Profile of: Steven Prince
1978
Documentary treatment
The Last Waltz
1978
Documentary treatment
Valentino
1977
screenplay
New York, New York
1977
screenplay
Italianamerican
1974
Documentary
Mean Streets
1973
screenplay
Revenge Is My Destiny
1971
original story / screenplay
It's Not Just You, Murray!
1964
Short written by
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
TRoll
2015
Short
Grandpa Ernest
The King of Comedy
1982
Second Man at Bar
Raging Bull
1980
Copa Waiter
New York, New York
1977
Well Wisher in Moonlit Terrace
It's Not Just You, Murray!
1964
Short
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
From the Classroom to the Streets: The Making of 'Who's That Knocking at My Door'
2004
Video documentary short photos
The Last Waltz
1978
Documentary creative consultant
I Call First
1967
directorial assistant
Assistant Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
It's Not Just You, Murray!
1964
Short assistant director
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Other Side of Home
2016
Video documentary short special thanks
I Call First
2015
special thanks
Paper Boys
2009
special thanks
From the Classroom to the Streets: The Making of 'Who's That Knocking at My Door'
2004
Video documentary short special thanks
Waiting for Guffman
1996
special thanks: for dialogue from Raging Bull
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down
1973
Documentary short special thanks: for his blessings and guidance
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
2008
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Mardik: Baghdad to Hollywood
2008
Documentary
Himself
From the Classroom to the Streets: The Making of 'Who's That Knocking at My Door'
2004
Video documentary short
Himself - Directorial Assistant
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
$1.5 Million
