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
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?
money character fighting
I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
lasts prison born
Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.
knows do-you-know
Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?
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.
holiday long celebrate-life
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.
positively
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!