It’s an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That’s what directing is.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYDon’t you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?
More Abraham Polonsky Quotes
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Indians don’t last in prison. They weren’t born for it like the whites.
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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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Money has no moral opinions.
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D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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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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Today in Germany, everyone is being watched–even the watchers.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal.
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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.
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Do you know what it’s like to love and be alone?
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I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
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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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What do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.
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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn’t have said.
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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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