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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.
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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I left the theater I literally left to begin a new life.
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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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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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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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Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
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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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I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
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Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
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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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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 was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.
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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
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I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
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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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The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
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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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For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.
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I was not a collective person or a bohemian I was an elitist.
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Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.
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