Abraham Polonsky
Abraham Polonsky
Abraham Lincoln Polonskywas an American film director, Academy-Award-nominated screenwriter, essayist and novelist, blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s, in the midst of the McCarthy era...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth5 December 1910
CountryUnited States of America
ideas space personality
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.
knows do-you-know
Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?
money character fighting
I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
cheating brother hate
It's perversion. Don't you see what it is? It's not natural. To go to great expense for something you want, that's natural. To reach out to take it, that's human, that's natural. But to get your pleasure from not taking, from cheating yourself deliberately like my brother did today, from not getting, from not taking. Don't you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?
integrity thinking honor
I don't take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
money wall 4th-of-july
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.
coffee kids fighting
Kids win this'n'that every day. Thousands of them. One out of a hundred fights professionally. One out of a thousand's worth watchin', one out of a million's worth coffee and doughnuts.
today germany conspiracy
Today in Germany, everyone is being watched--even the watchers.
kill-me dies
What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
holiday relaxation celebrate
A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up...
good-money
You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
money opinion moral
Money has no moral opinions.
lucky-day lucky danger
If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
grateful people political
Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people...And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.