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Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.
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 value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
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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 not a collective person or a bohemian I was an elitist.
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I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
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Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
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Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
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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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The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
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I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
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I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.
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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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You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.
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Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.
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The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
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I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
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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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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
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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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You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.
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