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" I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist. "
Elia Kazan
Bohemian
Person
Elitist
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" I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action. "
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Say
Nothing
Actor
" I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity. "
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Courage
Want
Generosity
" 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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Believe
Hate
Giving Up
" 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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Enough
Walk
Away
" Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick? "
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Good
Quick
Artist
" The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more. "
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Society
Good
" 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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Acting
Experience
Yourself
" I may be getting old, but not foolish. "
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Old
Foolish
Getting Old
" 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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Because
Were
Up
" The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up. "
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Try
Field
Must
" I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show. "
Elia Kazan
Show
Said
Becoming
" The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions. "
Elia Kazan
Convictions
Motion
Pictures
" Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. "
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Acting
Realistic
Poetry
" I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood. "
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Power
Political
Believe
" I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement. "
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Hero
Class
Art
" I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt. "
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Suffer
Contradiction
Fear
" 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. "
Elia Kazan
Tell
Spy
Time
" I didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does. "
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Way
Confidence
Glad
" Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you. "
Elia Kazan
You
Never
Hey
" I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action. "
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Important
Film
Action
" I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them. "
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Superior
Quit
Me
" Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it. "
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Miracle
Picture
Little
" To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable. "
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Police
Taste
Communist
" I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies. "
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Fundamental
Peace
Price
" The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep. "
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Stage
Action
Concentration
" A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people. "
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Shot
Director
Film
" I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor. "
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Actor
Think
Very
" Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him. "
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Him
Fighter
Breaks
" 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. "
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Way
Soul
Left