A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYMoney 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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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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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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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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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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What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
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D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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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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If you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
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Today in Germany, everyone is being watched–even the watchers.
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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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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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Money has no moral opinions.
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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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