Abby Mann

I consider the two years I spent in England from 1954 to 1956 to be the happiest in my life. It was that time when I was able to look at my life and work with some objectivity and to find out what I really wanted to say. Show less «

[on writing the screenplay for 'Judgment at Nuremberg'] A few years ago I retired to a room on Fifty-eight Street in New York with some legal records of the Third Reich. And I went there because I believe a write worth his salt at all has an obligation not only to entertain, but to comment on the world in which he lives. Not only to comment but maybe have a shot at reshaping that world. Show less «

A lot of people didn't want it done. People wanted to sweep the issue under the rug. (1994 interview about the making of "Judgment at Nuremberg") Show less «