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 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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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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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 want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
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I don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
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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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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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Today in Germany, everyone is being watched–even the watchers.
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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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What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
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Do you know what it’s like to love and be alone?
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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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Money has no moral opinions.
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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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What do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.
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