If you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYIt’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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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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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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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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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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A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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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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Indians don’t last in prison. They weren’t born for it like the whites.
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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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D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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Today in Germany, everyone is being watched–even the watchers.
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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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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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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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