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.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYWhat do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.
More Abraham Polonsky Quotes
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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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I’ll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!
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If you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
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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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I don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
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I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
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Do you know what it’s like to love and be alone?
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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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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.
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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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What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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Today in Germany, everyone is being watched–even the watchers.
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D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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