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“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

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.”

Abraham Polonsky

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.”

Abraham Polonsky

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969).

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

Abraham Polonsky

Odds Against Tomorrow (1959).

“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

as quoted in Directing the Film, Ed Sherman, 1976.

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

Abraham Polonsky

Body and Soul (1947).

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

Abraham Polonsky

Odds Against Tomorrow (1959).

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

Abraham Polonsky

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?"”

Abraham Polonsky

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

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