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.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYI want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
More Abraham Polonsky Quotes
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What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
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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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Indians don’t last in prison. They weren’t born for it like the whites.
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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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Do you know what it’s like to love and be alone?
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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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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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Today in Germany, everyone is being watched–even the watchers.
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.
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I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
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If you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
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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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I don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
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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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