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I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.
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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I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
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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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Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
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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 the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
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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 was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
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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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I left the theater I literally left to begin a new life.
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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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