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Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
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 not a collective person or a bohemian I was an elitist.
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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.
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I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.
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Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.
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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 left the theater I literally left to begin a new life.
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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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A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
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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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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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