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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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Elia Kazan
Age: 94 †
Born: 1909
Born: September 7
Died: 2003
Died: September 28
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I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom more.
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Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
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I was not a collective person or a bohemian I was an elitist.
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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 will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
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You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.
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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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I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
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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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For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.
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