Martin Scorsese: If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Martin Scorsese said elsewhere, not written here

First of all, I’d like to stop complaining—I’m beginning to annoy myself. I would like to learn to read faster, however. Again, the rest I’ve learned to live with.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 22 February 2010 source ↗

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Antonio Banderas

The age. I would like to be 30 years old now.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 12 December 2019 source ↗

Isaac Mizrahi

I would care less about what people thought of me.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 5 April 2022 source ↗

George Saunders Short-story writer and novelist

I’d like to have a more generous, less anxious mind.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 25 January 2023 source ↗

Sally Field Actor

I’d be more patient, which I didn’t consider a virtue until right this moment.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 March 2016 source ↗

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I think you can strive to attain it, but be realistic about the outcome. In the meantime, I find I might be experiencing it through flashes or brief moments in love and art, and at times just being alive.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 March 2010 source ↗