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Elia Kazan

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Elia Kazan: A Biography
RICHARD SCHICKEL 'A Face in the Crowd' is Elia Kazan's forgotten movie.
PEYTON REED My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.
ALEX NORTH 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 Subliminally, I had always wanted to act. Although I had only performed in a couple of plays, I was ...
MARTIN LANDAU You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson...
DEYTH BANGER I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER I studied with Strasberg, Elia Kazan. They raised the bar. They weren't easy to please, and they...
MARTIN LANDAU I think in vitro is a miracle and it has given me my precious little baby boy.
CINDY MARGOLIS 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 film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
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 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 Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE That the film turned out to be coherent is a miracle. That it is successful proves there is a God.
MARTIN BREST Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of...
PABLO PICASSO Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Love is always a miracle, everywhere, every time. But for us, it's a little different.
JOHN GREEN Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sug...
PABLO PICASSO My heroes are guys like Frank Capra and Elia Kazan and Coen brothers and Terry Gilliam, more so than...
LES CLAYPOOL Could it be? Yes, it is! Broccoli kicks the bucket. A Christmas miracle. God bless us, every one.
PATRICK YEARLY The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan,...
CALLIE KHOURI Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a ce...
CLINT EASTWOOD All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every second.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU My daughter has seen the transition from struggling screenwriter to successful picture book author, ...
DREW DAYWALT Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.
JEAN INGELOW Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want t...
JOHN GREEN Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, an...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
BARBARA TUCHMAN The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture
ALFRED HITCHCOCK The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
WALT WHITMAN Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
EMILE M. CIORAN Every believer is God's miracle.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Every successful has a painful story. Every painful story has a successful ending. Accept the pain a...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want t...
JOHN GREEN One of the most important aspects that feed a thriving economy is successful businesses, so the more...
FABRIZIO MOREIRA A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE I believe that miracles happen every day. Every person is a miracle. Every moment is a miracle. If o...
BO SANCHEZ Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.
ALFRED SISLEY Every performer has a little gem, a little pearl they have done that nobody pays much attention to. ...
JOHNNY MATHIS Nothing special has happened today; no one can say she was more provoked than usual. It is only that...
NAOMI ALDERMAN It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN [T]here is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little...
LORRAINE HANSBERRY Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
SAM RAIMI Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Be a good guide, tell me what you see, are sure is that?
Please try to describe the picture as ...
DEYTH BANGER The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations... they think ahead and create th...
ROBERT COLLIER The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create thei...
ROBERT COLLIER The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create thei...
ROBERT COLLIER The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations... they think ahead and create th...
ROBERT COLLIER For every mountain there is a miracle.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER My first book was the most successful debut novel in the U.K. ever and every one of my books has rea...
KATHY REICHS One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if i...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE One picture is worth 1,000 denials.
RONALD REAGAN I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, ha...
MIRANDA LAMBERT Every person who has a goal and knows his calling and is striving to fulfill it can be successful
SUNDAY ADELAJA One time a guy handed me a picture. He said, 'Here's a picture of me when I was younger.' Every pict...
MITCH HEDBERG Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic tha...
W. CLEMENT STONE A truly successful person in life is the one who is satisfied with what he has.
IPE MATHEW Every one of them shows a different picture of misery.
ALAN ARKIN

More Elia Kazan

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 film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
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 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)