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You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.

Elia Kazan

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Elia Kazan
Age: 94 †
Born: 1909
Born: September 7
Died: 2003
Died: September 28
Actor
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Film Director
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Elias Kazantzoglou
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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
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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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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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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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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 like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.
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Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.
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You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.
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I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.
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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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A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
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I was always a self-conscious person.
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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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Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
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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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