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Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
Elia Kazan
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Elia Kazan
Age: 94 †
Born: 1909
Born: September 7
Died: 2003
Died: September 28
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I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
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People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way.
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I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.
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I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
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Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.
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When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.
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I left the theater I literally left to begin a new life.
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I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.
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Some directors, like Stevens [George Stevens], shoot full circle, 360 degrees, and that's what's right for them. I generally shoot at about a seven to one ratio. But part of that is because I've worked on every screenplay, so I'm further along in the visual concept.
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The thing with films is that you have to make something that will get people out of their houses, away from the TV set. You must touch people, say something. Otherwise, they'll stay at home.
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I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.
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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
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I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
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I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
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I was always a self-conscious person.
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I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.
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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
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Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.
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There aren't many male stars - that's a loose term - like Kirk [Douglas] around. Most of those virile personalities have to keep working, continue the image because they can't do anything else. They don't even read. Their real identity is in making those pictures. They have to keep jumping on horses and hitting somebody on the head with a gun.
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