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The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

I was always a self-conscious person.

Elia Kazan

I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.

Elia Kazan

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

Elia Kazan

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

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

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

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.

Elia Kazan

Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything.

Elia Kazan

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

Elia Kazan

I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.

Elia Kazan

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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A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

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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 like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

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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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You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.

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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

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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.

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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 don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.

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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 is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

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Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.

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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

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I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

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Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.

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The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

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When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.

Elia Kazan

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

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I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.

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I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

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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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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 owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.

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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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Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you.

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