Abraham Polonsky

Abraham Lincoln Polonsky (December 5, 1910 – October 26, 1999) was an American novelist, screenwriter and film director. In the late 1930s he joined the American Communist Party, and was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.

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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. 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

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"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."

- Abraham Polonsky

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"What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies."

- Abraham Polonsky

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

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

- Abraham Polonsky

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

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

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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."

- Abraham Polonsky

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"Polonsky, along with Chaplin and Losey, remains one of the great casualties of the anti-Communist hysteria of the fifties."