Abraham Polonsky quotes

Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites. (Abraham Polonsky)
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. 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. View quote
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What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies. View quote
Abraham Polonsky
What you doin' with such a big ol' dog in New York?" "Never had a wife. View quote
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Money has no moral opinions. View quote
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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said. View quote
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Do you know what it's like to love and be alone? View quote
Abraham Polonsky
It was a great pleasure to make a movie again. Nothing is better; perhaps revolution, but there you have to succeed and be right, dangers which never attach themselves to making movies, and dreaming. View quote
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Twenty-one years between first and second films is longer than any director should have to wait. The case of Polonsky is one of the most dismal hangovers from the McCarthy period. View quote
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Yeah, yeah, I know I got rid of the headache. Now I got cancer. View quote
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Polonsky, along with Chaplin and Losey, remains one of the great casualties of the anti-Communist hysteria of the fifties. (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. View quote
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If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody. View quote
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money. View quote
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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. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America? View quote
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I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O! View quote
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What do you mean "gangsters"? It's business. View quote
Abraham Polonsky