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I left the theater I literally left to begin a new life.
Elia Kazan
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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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I may be getting old, but not foolish.
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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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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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The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.
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I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
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I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
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I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
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The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
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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 was not a collective person or a bohemian I was an elitist.
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You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.
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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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Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
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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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Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.
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I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
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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 film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
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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 question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
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