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 POLONSKYIt’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 POLONSKYIt’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 POLONSKYKids 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.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYWhat do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYD’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
ABRAHAM POLONSKYI don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
ABRAHAM POLONSKYDo you know what it’s like to love and be alone?
ABRAHAM POLONSKYYou must never throw away things that are worth good money.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYDon’t you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?
ABRAHAM POLONSKYDirectors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people…And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYMoney has no moral opinions.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYIf you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYI want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYBut to get your pleasure from not taking, from cheating yourself deliberately like my brother did today, from not getting, from not taking.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYI’ll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!
ABRAHAM POLONSKYThis 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.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY