I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYWhat are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
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 don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
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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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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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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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Don’t you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?
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If you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
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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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Money has no moral opinions.
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Do you know what it’s like to love and be alone?
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What do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.
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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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What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
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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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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn’t have said.
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