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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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I was always a self-conscious person.
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Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.
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Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
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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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I may be getting old, but not foolish.
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I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
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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 was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.
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I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom more.
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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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A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
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You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.
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