Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people…And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYA holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.
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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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Today in Germany, everyone is being watched–even the watchers.
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I don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
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What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
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Do you know what it’s like to love and be alone?
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Kids win this’n’that every day. Thousands of them. One out of a hundred fights professionally. One out of a thousand’s worth watchin’, one out of a million’s worth coffee and doughnuts.
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.
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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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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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D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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What do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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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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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn’t have said.
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