A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn’t have said.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYI want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
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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 don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
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Money has no moral opinions.
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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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I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
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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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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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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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If you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
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Today in Germany, everyone is being watched–even the watchers.
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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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I’ll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!
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Do you know what it’s like to love and be alone?
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Indians don’t last in prison. They weren’t born for it like the whites.
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