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I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
- Elia Kazan
#Academy
#Courage
#Generosity
#Want
I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
- Elia Kazan
#Audience
#Exuberance
#Secret
#Voice
You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
- Elia Kazan
#Alive
#Every
#Fighting
#Life
#Stay
The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.
- Elia Kazan
#American
#Believe
#Good
#Society
#Win
A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
- Elia Kazan
#Desperate
#Film
#Matter
#People
#Shot
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
- Elia Kazan
#Acting
#Direction
#Poetry
#Realistic
I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
- Elia Kazan
#Actor
#I Think
#Privilege
#Think
#Very
I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.
- Elia Kazan
#Contradiction
#Fear
#Simply
#Without
You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.
- Elia Kazan
#Just
#Lines
#Sit
#Something
#Unusual
I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.
- Elia Kazan
#Director
#Gift
#Me
#Owe
#She
I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.
- Elia Kazan
#Action
#Film
#Going
#Important
#Make
I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.
- Elia Kazan
#Collaboration
#Should
#Think
#Thumb
What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.
- Elia Kazan
#Because
#Decision
#Difficult
#Go
#Way
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
#Actor
#He
#Hell
#Know
#Reach
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.
- Elia Kazan
#Believe
#Feel
#Film
#Hate
#I Believe
I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
- Elia Kazan
#Believe
#Political
#Power
#Thinking
The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
- Elia Kazan
#Action
#Essence
#Movement
#Screen
#Stage
I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.
- Elia Kazan
#Best
#Critics
#Lost
#Myself
#Now
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
#Ahead
#End
#Me
#Red
#World
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
- Elia Kazan
#Art
#Artist
#Dare
#Others
#Reveal
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
- Elia Kazan
#Cool
#Facts
#Hard
#Mystery
#Will
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