It’s perversion. Don’t you see what it is? It’s not natural. To go to great expense for something you want, that’s natural. To reach out to take it, that’s human, that’s natural.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYDon’t you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?
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Do you know what it’s like to love and be alone?
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If you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
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What do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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I don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
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I’ll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!
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This is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars–an excitingday in a man’s life. The enterprise was slightly illegal.
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Don’t you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?
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But to get your pleasure from not taking, from cheating yourself deliberately like my brother did today, from not getting, from not taking.
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I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
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First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space.
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D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people…And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there’s nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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