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Elia Kazan (66)

Birth:	7th September, 1909
Death:	28th September, 2003
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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

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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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• I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

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

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• I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.

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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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• I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.

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• I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

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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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• 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.

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• I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later.

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• I hate the Communists and have for many years and don’t feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.

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

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

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

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• Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.

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