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A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
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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I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
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I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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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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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 don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
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I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
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I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
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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 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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Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
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I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
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Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
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You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.
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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 not a collective person or a bohemian I was an elitist.
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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 always a self-conscious person.
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