Abraham Polonsky Quotes

United States, Film Director
December 5, 1910 – October, 26, 1999.

Abraham Lincoln Polonsky (December 5, 1910 – October 26, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, essayist and novelist. He won an Academy Award for a screenplay, but in the late 1950s was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios, after refusing to testify at congressional hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s, in the midst of the McCarthy era.

Also known as Essayist, Novelist

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!

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- You
- Give
- Answer
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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- Up
- Time
- Long

You must never throw away things that are worth good money.

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- Good
- Money
- Never
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?

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- Up
- Live
- America
If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.

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- You
- Day
- Lucky
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.

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- Great
- Movie
- Revolution
Money has no moral opinions.

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- Money
- Moral
- Opinions
A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.

Abraham Polonsky
- Life
- Trying
- Remember

Yeah, yeah, I know I got rid of the headache. Now I got cancer.

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- Cancer
Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?

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- Love
- Know
- Alone
What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.

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Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.

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What do you mean 'gangsters'? It's business.

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- Business
'What you doin' with such a big ol' dog in New York?' 'Never had a wife.'

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- Wife
- Dog

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.

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- World
- Words
- Space