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ALEX NORTH Elia Kazan: A Biography
RICHARD SCHICKEL 'A Face in the Crowd' is Elia Kazan's forgotten movie.
PEYTON REED I studied with Strasberg, Elia Kazan. They raised the bar. They weren't easy to please, and they...
MARTIN LANDAU Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit f...
ETHEL WATERS I trained as an actor with Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, and Harold Clurman, and those guys set a very ...
MARTIN LANDAU Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your...
JAMES CAMERON Subliminally, I had always wanted to act. Although I had only performed in a couple of plays, I was ...
MARTIN LANDAU It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the ne...
IRVIN KERSHNER Going into my second film as a director, it's night and day of what it was like going into my fi...
DEREK MAGYAR My heroes are guys like Frank Capra and Elia Kazan and Coen brothers and Terry Gilliam, more so than...
LES CLAYPOOL No matter what we're trying to accomplish in life, or what career path we're trying to take,...
LUCAS BLACK What does genius mean? God has put us here specifically... every person has a job or journey to do. ...
SAVION GLOVER If a film is being made by an intelligent director, they're going to cast the right guy.
TOM STURRIDGE People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directin...
JULIANNE MOORE Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.

The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS Film is mostly a visual medium, and so the director has much more control in terms of painting pictu...
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE No matter who you are, no matter what you're going through, God knows it. He is with you. He is ...
NICK VUJICIC I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it...
DAN GILROY I learned that you have to say that you're a filmmaker. You're not a screenwriter; you'r...
WHIT STILLMAN My hat's off to documentary filmmakers. I don't know if I'm ever going back to it. You&#...
TERRY ZWIGOFF Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases,...
MARTIN SCORSESE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS What I think is great style advice that people have told me is that people who are confident look be...
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN What they did the third quarter was to not miss a shot. Everybody was on. No matter what defense we ...
RON GINAPP Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same ...
MARA WILSON When a dramatic actor does a funny film, people are like, 'Wonderful! I didn't know he was f...
WILL FERRELL Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has ...
WILL ROGERS Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bo...
SATYAJIT RAY 'The Best Man' was my first feature film, and I didn't want to be known as a director wh...
MELISSA DE SOUSA I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we...
DAN ABRAMS On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that h...
WILL ROGERS Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is sa...
BRUCE BERESFORD Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD You could make the most beautiful film, and that weekend it's raining too hard on the East Coast...
AVA DUVERNAY My family background has always been very supportive. They're going to be there for me no matter...
MARK SANCHEZ I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with pe...
SARA PAXTON You're measured by championships no matter what.
CANDACE PARKER A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good ...
KAJOL No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 diffe...
JAMES WOODS I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or...
LARRY MULLEN, JR. As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty prolet...
ALAN MOORE I like everything that people say. No matter what they say. You gay, you a punk. You got a nice girl...
YOUNG THUG As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV...
LEE DANIELS If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
DEBASISH MRIDHA If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
PATRICE LECONTE The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a ...
KATHRYN BIGELOW It's Wayne Gretzky. No matter what he does it wouldn't have bothered me. He's a great man.
CASSIE CAMPBELL People need stories. Stories of love, hope, survival, wisdom and sometimes pain. Maybe you don’t t...
SAVI SHARMA I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to kno...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenu...
EDGAR WRIGHT A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.
MELANIE LAURENT If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son...
RAFE SPALL No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks do...
COLIN HANKS No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no...
ALAN BATES An actor is only a part of the film, not the whole, and very often, he is moulded by the director. T...
ANUPAM KHER When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of ...
JASON REITMAN I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of thei...
K. FLAY The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS I enjoy acting, and I appreciate people who have passion about what they're doing and have a vis...
ED HARRIS From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're ...
BARBARA OLSON Does film music really matter to the average moviegoer? A great score, after all, can't save a b...
TERRY TEACHOUT I was planning to study more, but it's a struggle with so many opportunities for film and trying...
ZHU ZHU If you're clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever e...
DANA BRUNETTI I've heard directing talked about as being a benign dictatorship, and I think that's probabl...
FELICITY JONES No matter what anybody says, it does make a difference.
ERIK RASMUSSEN He's Soderbergh, we're working for him. It doesn't matter what he's doing; we'll...
TERENCE STAMP The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring...
SERGEI EISENSTEIN He seemed to know so much more than it would be appropriate for a first-time (film) director to know...
ANNETTE BENING If you're convinced as an artist of what you're doing, the only move is to, no matter what p...
ZEDD If you're successful at a young age, no matter the profession, there has to come a time when you...
KIRSTEN DUNST No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing...
ABAGAIL JOHNSON I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it&...
BRYAN ADAMS He says that we must protect our families no matter what. No matter what we got to do to protect the...
ANDREW GALASETTI City council had said no to the big box re-zoning, and this seemed a good opportunity as well. The d...
ANNE ROBERTS Barack knows the American Dream because he's lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to ...
MICHELLE OBAMA It's a challenge for new film directors to know when it's enough to ask people for their opinions an...
MARTIN DANSKY You want to create your own path, no matter what situation you're in.
FUTURE We find that no matter what country we're in, if we hit the right economic notes and appeal to t...
FRED DELUCA The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.
MICHAEL GERBER He just digs himself deeper into a hole no matter when he does it.
ALAN LIGHT I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like thi...
PATRICK MARBER I would say to people of a libertarian conservative position on an issue, do not do a taped intervie...
PETER SCHIFF If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactl...
JOEL OSTEEN Americans are fighters. We're tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to figh...
ELIZABETH WARREN I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing...
TONY SCOTT Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we k...
JOHN LASSETER Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE Before I accept a job, I always talk to folks about it. 'Why does he kill these 22 people?' ...
POWERS BOOTHE When Ron Howard does 'Rush,' he has to learn and steep himself in F1 culture and European ra...
JON FAVREAU I try not to read the blogs or what people say about me. Because that's what brings everybody do...
VANESSA HUDGENS No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you're staying in a small box with a smal...
KEVIN HART To me, spirituality means 'no matter what.' One stays on the path, one commits to love, one ...
YEHUDA BERG Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the fl...
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To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste ...
ELIA KAZAN Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will co...
ELIA KAZAN You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
ELIA KAZAN I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
ELIA KAZAN You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive
ELIA KAZAN You've got to keep fighting -- you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
ELIA KAZAN The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
ELIA KAZAN The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cann...
ELIA KAZAN Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
ELIA KAZAN Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you.
ELIA KAZAN I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.
ELIA KAZAN I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left a...
ELIA KAZAN I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
ELIA KAZAN If there is a better performance by a man in the history of film, I don't know what it is.
ELIA KAZAN You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive
ELIA KAZAN Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.
ELIA KAZAN Jesus Christ, he is Cal!
ELIA KAZAN I've been ratting on myself all these years and I didn't know it. I'm glad what I done.
ELIA KAZAN I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
ELIA KAZAN He was smart, he knew everything.
ELIA KAZAN I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
ELIA KAZAN I thought what a terrible thing I had done; not the political aspect of it because maybe that was co...
ELIA KAZAN The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
ELIA KAZAN What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are p...
ELIA KAZAN The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
ELIA KAZAN Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
ELIA KAZAN A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
ELIA KAZAN I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film e...
ELIA KAZAN Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.
ELIA KAZAN I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.
ELIA KAZAN I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.
ELIA KAZAN I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or ...
ELIA KAZAN I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later.
ELIA KAZAN I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.
ELIA KAZAN I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other c...
ELIA KAZAN I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.
ELIA KAZAN I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to ...
ELIA KAZAN The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
ELIA KAZAN The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.
ELIA KAZAN When you come to my show you get the real thing. I don't pretend to be Sinatra — I just happen to ...
PAUL ELIA If we drop the rates today, and the price increase continues, then in a very short period of time we...
ELIA GERMANI I don't think it's our role to sit down with various parties, and come to an agreement, a consensus....
ELIA GERMANI WHAT WE'RE DEALING with here is a request by the electric company to pass on to its customers costs ...
ELIA GERMANI This is a long-term problem, it's a long-term energy crisis, which has not been addressed by either ...
ELIA GERMANI If you cannot be quiet, I'm going to ask you to leave the room.
ELIA GERMANI I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dia...
ZOE KAZAN I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creat...
ZOE KAZAN I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.
ZOE KAZAN When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the ti...
ZOE KAZAN I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movie...
ZOE KAZAN I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probabl...
ZOE KAZAN I never wanted to be a playwright.
ZOE KAZAN I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a jo...
ZOE KAZAN I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.
ZOE KAZAN Writing-wise, I like to have a lot of things on the burners at once, because when I hit a wall, I li...
ZOE KAZAN If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
ZOE KAZAN I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope...
ZOE KAZAN Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it ...
ZOE KAZAN I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's rea...
ZOE KAZAN I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally chang...
ZOE KAZAN I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.
ZOE KAZAN I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
ZOE KAZAN And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructiv...
ZOE KAZAN You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expec...
ZOE KAZAN My schedule is completely different doing a play than it is doing a movie, and I actually think it&#...
ZOE KAZAN I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
ZOE KAZAN People really do make the assumption that I had some weirdo Hollywood upbringing, but my parents are...
ZOE KAZAN I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
ZOE KAZAN In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go...
ZOE KAZAN I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My fathe...
LAINIE KAZAN I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightc...
LAINIE KAZAN I was a student of Sanford Meisner for three years at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and I studied with...
LAINIE KAZAN I have a rich, full, textured life.
LAINIE KAZAN I'm an exercise and yoga junkie and I feel good.
LAINIE KAZAN I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, bu...
LAINIE KAZAN And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give bir...
ZOE KAZAN Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.
ZOE KAZAN I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew u...
ZOE KAZAN I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the thea...
ZOE KAZAN This is the first wave of layoffs. The second wave -- I don't know when that would be -- may be a mu...
ELINA KAZAN To be a true national brand, you really have to have stores all across the country.
ELINA KAZAN It's not as if it's like two complete, separate stores.
ELINA KAZAN We're making every effort to offer jobs to displaced employees.
ELINA KAZAN We are very concerned about the individuals who were hurt.
ELINA KAZAN We're looking forward to having them here next year, them and their family. They are remarkable youn...
ELINA KAZAN They are remarkable young ladies. We're very sad they were injured.
ELINA KAZAN Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure--and for such a tomb migh...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) A woman asked a coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window a...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) Who first invented work, and bound the free And holyday-rejoicing spirit down . . . To that dr...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) "Presents," I often say, endear Absents."
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present wi...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! [Fr...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) The game [of poker] exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice ...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) Suck, baby! suck! mother's love grows by giving: Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wast...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) I'm not final because I'm right, I'm right because I'm final.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) Half as sober as a judge.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit ...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed;...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that ...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) Neat, not gaudy.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)