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Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.
Elia Kazan
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Elia Kazan
Age: 94 †
Born: 1909
Born: September 7
Died: 2003
Died: September 28
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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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Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
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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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I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.
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A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
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I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
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I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
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Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.
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I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
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Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
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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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The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
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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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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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Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
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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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I may be getting old, but not foolish.
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I left the theater I literally left to begin a new life.
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