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.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYI’ll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!
More Abraham Polonsky Quotes
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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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Money has no moral opinions.
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Indians don’t last in prison. They weren’t born for it like the whites.
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What do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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