Elia Kazan quotes - page 2

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up. (Elia Kazan)
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. View quote
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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement. View quote
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Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it. View quote
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I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action. View quote
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Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. View quote
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There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense. View quote
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The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep. View quote
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I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice. View quote
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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. View quote
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I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood. (Elia Kazan)
I may be getting old, but not foolish. View quote
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I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise. View quote
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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did. View quote
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I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb. View quote
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I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later. View quote
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The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Elia Kazan)
I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me. View quote
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For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists. View quote
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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. View quote
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Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing. View quote
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