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 POLONSKYFirst 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 POLONSKYD’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
ABRAHAM POLONSKYA holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYToday in Germany, everyone is being watched–even the watchers.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYA man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn’t have said.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYIndians don’t last in prison. They weren’t born for it like the whites.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYThis 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.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYWhat are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYBut to get your pleasure from not taking, from cheating yourself deliberately like my brother did today, from not getting, from not taking.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYKids 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.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYI want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYIf you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYMoney has no moral opinions.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYDon’t you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?
ABRAHAM POLONSKYIt’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.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYDo you know what it’s like to love and be alone?
ABRAHAM POLONSKY