Elia Kazan Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.”
-- Elia KazanSource : Elia Kazan, William Baer (2000). “Elia Kazan: Interviews”, p.161, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director.”
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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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“Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies.”
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“Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.”
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“I left the theater; I literally left to begin a new life.”
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“I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.”
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“I'm very pro-America, but I feel it necessary to keep in touch with Europe to maintain a perspective.”
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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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“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.”
-- Elia KazanSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.”
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“The only guy who was at all helpful as a producer was Sam Spiegel with On the Waterfront. He's one of the few who even knows what he's doing.”
-- Elia KazanSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.”
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“There aren't many male stars - that's a loose term - like Kirk [Douglas] around. Most of those virile personalities have to keep working, continue the image because they can't do anything else. They don't even read. Their real identity is in making those pictures. They have to keep jumping on horses and hitting somebody on the head with a gun.”
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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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“People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way.”
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“If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition”
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“I won't go back to the theater. I like some of the things they're doing but it's different now, not something I could do. I'll go on making films the rest of my life.”
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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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“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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“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 know many of the critics and I don't think of them as God-like figures. What can they do to hurt me? Sure, I might be slightly embarrassed for a day, but then you just go your own way.”
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“Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?”
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“TV has made us get down to the nub and new films will begin to live up to what the medium can be.”
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“Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.”
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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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“With kids you can take a chance but casting a guy at 45 is different. You don't discover somebody that age. If an actor hasn't made it by that time he probably has no talent.”
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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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“I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom more.”
-- Elia KazanSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.”
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