I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYBut 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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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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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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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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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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I don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
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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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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 man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn’t have said.
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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.
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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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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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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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