A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYI want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
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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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Do you know what it’s like to love and be alone?
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I don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
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I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
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Today in Germany, everyone is being watched–even the watchers.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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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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I’ll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!
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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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D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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What do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.
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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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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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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn’t have said.
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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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