35 Quotes by Abraham Polonsky

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.

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.

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!

A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up.

What do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.

I’ll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!

A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up...

A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn’t have said.

I don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!