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Abraham Polonsky
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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 (1910–1999) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: as quoted in Directing the Film, Ed Sherman, 1976.
“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 (1910–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: as quoted in The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, David Thomson, page 689, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2003, .
“What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.”
Abraham Polonsky (1910–1999) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Body and Soul (1947).
“What do you mean "gangsters"? It's business.”
Abraham Polonsky (1910–1999) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Force of Evil (1948).
“Yeah, yeah, I know I got rid of the headache. Now I got cancer.”
Abraham Polonsky (1910–1999) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Odds Against Tomorrow (1959).
“What you doin' with such a big ol' dog in New York?" "Never had a wife.”
Abraham Polonsky (1910–1999) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Odds Against Tomorrow (1959).
“Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.”
Abraham Polonsky (1910–1999) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969).
“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 (1910–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: David Thomson, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, page 689, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2003,
“Polonsky, along with Chaplin and Losey, remains one of the great casualties of the anti-Communist hysteria of the fifties.”
Abraham Polonsky (1910–1999) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Andrew Sarris, The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1968, .