Abraham Polonsky Quotes

Abraham Lincoln Polonsky was an American film director, screenwriter, essayist and novelist. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Body and Soul but in the early 1950s was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios, after refusing to testify at congressional hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee, in the midst of the McCarthy era. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. December 1910 – 26. October 1999
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Famous Abraham Polonsky Quotes

“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.”

as quoted in The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, David Thomson, page 689, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2003, ISBN 0-375-41128-3.

“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.”

David Thomson, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, page 689, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2003, ISBN 0-375-41128-3
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“Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.”

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969).

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

Odds Against Tomorrow (1959).

“What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.”

Body and Soul (1947).

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

Odds Against Tomorrow (1959).

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

Andrew Sarris, The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1968, ISBN 0-525-47227-4.
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“What do you mean "gangsters?"”

It's business.
Force of Evil (1948).

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