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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
Actor
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Elias Kazantzoglou
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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 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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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 said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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The thing with films is that you have to make something that will get people out of their houses, away from the TV set. You must touch people, say something. Otherwise, they'll stay at home.
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I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
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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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To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but it is bitter and unforgettable.
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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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I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
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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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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 was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
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I was always a self-conscious person.
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