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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 writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
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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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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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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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Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
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I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.
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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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I may be getting old, but not foolish.
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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
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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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Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
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I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
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The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
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You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.
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Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.
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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 truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
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