What do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYWhat do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYA 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.
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 POLONSKYYou must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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 POLONSKYA holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYDon’t you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?
ABRAHAM POLONSKYIndians don’t last in prison. They weren’t born for it like the whites.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYToday in Germany, everyone is being watched–even the watchers.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYFirst 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.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYMoney has no moral opinions.
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 POLONSKYIf you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
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 POLONSKYI don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
ABRAHAM POLONSKYI’ll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!
ABRAHAM POLONSKY