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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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Elias Kazantzoglou
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I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
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Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.
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I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
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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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I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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