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 POLONSKYIndians don’t last in prison. They weren’t born for it like the whites.
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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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Money has no moral opinions.
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I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
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Indians don’t last in prison. They weren’t born for it like the whites.
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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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What do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.
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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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A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.
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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.
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I don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
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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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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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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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