Abraham Polonsky famous quotes

03-25-2025

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.
-- Abraham Polonsky

#Holiday #Long #Celebrate Life
Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?
-- Abraham Polonsky
What do you mean "gangsters"? It's business.
-- Abraham Polonsky

#Mean #Gangsters
What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
-- Abraham Polonsky

#Kill Me
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

#Ideas #Space #Personality
A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up...
-- Abraham Polonsky

#Holiday #Relaxation #Celebrate
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?
-- Abraham Polonsky

#Children #Growing Up #Nice
You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
-- Abraham Polonsky

#Good Money
Money has no moral opinions.
-- Abraham Polonsky

#Money #Opinion #Moral
If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
-- Abraham Polonsky

#Lucky #Danger
A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
-- Abraham Polonsky

#Men #Trying #Remember
Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people...And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.
-- Abraham Polonsky

#Grateful #People #Political
Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.
-- Abraham Polonsky

#Lasts #Prison #Born

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