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…

- 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 sp…

- Abraham Polonsky

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

- Abraham Polonsky

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

What do you mean "gangsters"? It's business.

- Abraham Polonsky

Today in Germany, everyone is being watched--even the watchers.

- Abraham Polonsky

You must never throw away things that are worth good money.

- Abraham Polonsky

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

- Abraham Polonsky

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

- Abraham Polonsky