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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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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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A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
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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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For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.
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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 don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
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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 question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
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Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.
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I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
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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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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
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You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.
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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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I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
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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 was always a self-conscious person.
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I may be getting old, but not foolish.
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