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The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

Elia Kazan

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Elia Kazan
Age: 94 †
Born: 1909
Born: September 7
Died: 2003
Died: September 28
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Elias Kazantzoglou
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I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.
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I was always a self-conscious person.
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For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.
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I left the theater I literally left to begin a new life.
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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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You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.
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To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but it is bitter and unforgettable.
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The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
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There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.
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Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
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You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.
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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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The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.
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Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.
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