Elia Kazan Quotes


62 quotes:

"You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive"
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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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"You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility."
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"You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is."
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"You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual."
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"Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it."
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"What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties."
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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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"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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"There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense."
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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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"The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going."
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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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"The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions."
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"The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate."
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"The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up."
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"The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards."
Author: Kazan Quotes Category: American Director Quotes
"The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep."
Author: Kazan Quotes Category: American Director Quotes
"The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed."
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"The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more."
Author: Kazan Quotes Category: American Director Quotes

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