Elia Kazan Quotes
62 Elia Kazan quotes:
"A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people."
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"Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you."
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"I didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does."
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"I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this."
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"I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist."
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"The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed."
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"The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it."
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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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"You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive"
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"Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting."
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"Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him."
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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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"I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest."
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"I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show."
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"I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement."
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"I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul."
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"I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action."
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"I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable."
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"I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends."
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"Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose."
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