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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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I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
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Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.
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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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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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The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
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I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.
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I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
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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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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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I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
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I may be getting old, but not foolish.
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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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Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
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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 very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
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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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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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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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Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
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People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way.
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