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
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.
loyalty brother betrayal
I'll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!
men trying remember
A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
lucky-day lucky danger
If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
money opinion moral
Money has no moral opinions.
good-money
You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
children growing-up nice
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?
holiday relaxation celebrate
A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up...
kill-me dies
What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
mean gangsters
What do you mean "gangsters"? It's business.
today germany conspiracy
Today in Germany, everyone is being watched--even the watchers.
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.
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.
integrity thinking honor
I don't take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!