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Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.

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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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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I was not a collective person or a bohemian I was an elitist.
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I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
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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 left the theater I literally left to begin a new life.
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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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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 said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
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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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A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
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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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Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.
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You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.
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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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Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
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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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I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
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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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I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
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I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
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