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.
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.
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. 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