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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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Elia Kazan
Age: 94 †
Born: 1909
Born: September 7
Died: 2003
Died: September 28
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Elias Kazantzoglou
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You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.
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I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
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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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You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.
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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 left the theater I literally left to begin a new life.
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I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
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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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A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
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I was not a collective person or a bohemian I was an elitist.
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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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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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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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Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.
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Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.
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I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
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