Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people…And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYDo you know what it’s like to love and be alone?
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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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Money has no moral opinions.
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Today in Germany, everyone is being watched–even the watchers.
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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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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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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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Do you know what it’s like to love and be alone?
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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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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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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 want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
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What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
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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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