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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 always a self-conscious person.
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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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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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People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way.
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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 left the theater I literally left to begin a new life.
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You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.
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I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
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The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
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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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A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
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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 may be getting old, but not foolish.
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I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
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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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Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
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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 truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
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Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
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