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A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
Elia Kazan
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Elia Kazan
Age: 94 †
Born: 1909
Born: September 7
Died: 2003
Died: September 28
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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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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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I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
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Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
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I left the theater I literally left to begin a new life.
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The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
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I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
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You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.
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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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A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
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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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The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
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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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Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
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I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
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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 was always a self-conscious person.
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I was not a collective person or a bohemian I was an elitist.
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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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