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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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Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.
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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 think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.
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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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A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
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Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.
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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
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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 was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.
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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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Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
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I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
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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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A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
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Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.
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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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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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When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.
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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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