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.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYToday in Germany, everyone is being watched–even the watchers.
More Abraham Polonsky Quotes
-
-
Do you know what it’s like to love and be alone?
ABRAHAM POLONSKY -
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.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY -
Indians don’t last in prison. They weren’t born for it like the whites.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY -
A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY -
I don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
ABRAHAM POLONSKY -
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.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY -
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 POLONSKY -
Today in Germany, everyone is being watched–even the watchers.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY -
What do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY -
If you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY -
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.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY -
Money has no moral opinions.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY -
D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
ABRAHAM POLONSKY -
I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY -
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.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY