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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.

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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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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Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
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I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
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I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
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I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
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I left the theater I literally left to begin a new life.
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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
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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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A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
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I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
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I was not a collective person or a bohemian I was an elitist.
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I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
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