If you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYDirectors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people…And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.
More Abraham Polonsky Quotes
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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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I don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
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Money has no moral opinions.
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D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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Indians don’t last in prison. They weren’t born for it like the whites.
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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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I’ll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!
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Today in Germany, everyone is being watched–even the watchers.
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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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A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.
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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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I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
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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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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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What do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.
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