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I was not a collective person or a bohemian I was an elitist.
Elia Kazan
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Elia Kazan
Age: 94 †
Born: 1909
Born: September 7
Died: 2003
Died: September 28
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The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
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I may be getting old, but not foolish.
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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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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 said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
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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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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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The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
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There aren't many male stars - that's a loose term - like Kirk [Douglas] around. Most of those virile personalities have to keep working, continue the image because they can't do anything else. They don't even read. Their real identity is in making those pictures. They have to keep jumping on horses and hitting somebody on the head with a gun.
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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 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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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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Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
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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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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 knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
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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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I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
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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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