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Elia Kazan
American
Director
Born:
Sep 7
,
1909
Died:
Sep 28
,
2003
Acting
Actor
Every
He
People
You
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Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
Elia Kazan
Will
Whatever
Secrecy
Exact
Mystery
Facts
Hysteria
Exists
Inflamed
Suspicion
Hard
Cool
I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.
Elia Kazan
Me
Director
Gift
Made
Out
She
Owe
Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you.
Elia Kazan
Good
You
Cause
Hey
Must
Never
Doin
Hear
Good Cause
Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.
Elia Kazan
People
Other
Disturbing
Something
Doing
Anybody
Disgusting
Informs
Who
Even
I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
Elia Kazan
Art
Class
Hero
Young
Insurgent
Movement
Working
Working-Class
The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.
Elia Kazan
Me
World
Stretched
Carpet
Out
Red
Red Carpet
Like
Huge
End
Walked
You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.
Elia Kazan
You
People
Responsibility
Own
Struggles
Remind
Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything.
Elia Kazan
Relationship
Our
Everything
Fact
Cursed
Agreed
I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.
Elia Kazan
Compliant
Neither
Small
Nor
Agreeable
The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
Elia Kazan
Made
Convictions
Direct
Pictures
Motion
Motion Pictures
Represent
Chosen
Plays
I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
Elia Kazan
Peace
Value
Price
Bought
Fundamental
I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later.
Elia Kazan
Half
Party
Year
Late
Later
Out
Joined
Got
Communist
Communist Party
The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.
Elia Kazan
Daily
Democracy
Practices
Accustomed
Automatically
Which
Communists
Violated
I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.
Elia Kazan
Time
Me
People
Nice
Spend
Would
Guy
My Time
Like
Most
Used
Nice Guy
I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.
Elia Kazan
Fear
Simply
Spoke
Self-Doubt
Without
Contradiction
Did
Suffer
I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
Elia Kazan
You
Call
Did
Actor
Right
I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
Elia Kazan
Future
Communism
Better
True
Understood
Than
Did
I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.
Elia Kazan
Life
Myself
Theatre
My Life
Build
Building
Group
Gave
Something
Because
Am
There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.
Elia Kazan
Respect
Sense
Broadway
One Thing
Only
Only One Thing
So-Called
Actor
Thing
Competitive
Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.
Elia Kazan
Picture
Every
Miracle
Little
Successful
I didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does.
Elia Kazan
Confidence
Way
Glad
Looks
Does
Maybe
Much
I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
Elia Kazan
Money
Too Much
Value
Stars
Think
Too
Too Much Money
Praise
Overrated
Question
Get
Much
I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.
Elia Kazan
Dangerous
Difficult
Something
Directors
Come
Like
Unusual
Little
Create
Who
Set
The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.
Elia Kazan
You
Something
Uncertain
More
Anticipate
Ambivalent
Get
Cannot
Then
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.
Elia Kazan
You
Walk
Dinner
First
Sign
Take
Him
First Thing
Contract
The First Thing
Afterwards
Should
Actor
Thing
The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
Elia Kazan
Stage
Action
Penetration
Concentration
Essence
Movement
Screen
Sweep
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