What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
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.
More Abraham Polonsky Quotes
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What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
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Today in Germany, everyone is being watched–even the watchers.
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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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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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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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This 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.
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I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
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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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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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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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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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