What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYIndians don’t last in prison. They weren’t born for it like the whites.
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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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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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D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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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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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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What do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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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.
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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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I don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
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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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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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