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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 was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.
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I was always a self-conscious person.
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You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.
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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 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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A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
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The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
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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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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 think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.
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I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
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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.
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I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
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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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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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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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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 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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