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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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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 the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
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I was not a collective person or a bohemian I was an elitist.
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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 don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
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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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I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.
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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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For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.
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The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
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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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People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way.
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I may be getting old, but not foolish.
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I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
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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 said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
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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 will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
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Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.
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