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1910–1999 United States
Abraham Lincoln Polonsky (December 5, 1910 – October 26, 1999) was an American novelist, screenwriter and film director. In the late 1930s he joined the American Communist Party, and was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.
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"What you doin' with such a big ol' dog in New York?" "Never had a wife."
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
What do you mean "gangsters"? It's business.
Force of Evil (1948)
Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)
What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
Body and Soul (1947)
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.
Yeah, yeah, I know I got rid of the headache. Now I got cancer.
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.
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