Money has no moral opinions.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYIf you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good 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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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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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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If you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
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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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What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
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Today in Germany, everyone is being watched–even the watchers.
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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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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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This 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.
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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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