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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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Elia Kazan
Age: 94 †
Born: 1909
Born: September 7
Died: 2003
Died: September 28
Actor
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Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
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Istanbul
Elias Kazantzoglou
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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 want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
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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 knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
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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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I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
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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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The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
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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 will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
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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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The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
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Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.
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I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.
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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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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 question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
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I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
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I was not a collective person or a bohemian I was an elitist.
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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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