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Elia Kazan

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I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.


— Elia Kazan


#film #going #i #important #make

I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.


— Elia Kazan


#compliant #i #neither #nor #small

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.


— Elia Kazan


#critics #even #friends #going #i

Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.


— Elia Kazan


#him #inside #loose #measure #merit

Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything.


— Elia Kazan


#cursed #everything #fact #our #relationship

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.


— Elia Kazan


#direction #poetry #prose #realistic #stylized

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.


— Elia Kazan


#american society #any #belief #believe #finally

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.


— Elia Kazan


#automatically #communists #daily #democracy #i

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.


— Elia Kazan


#concentration #essence #movement #penetration #screen

The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.


— Elia Kazan


#afterwards #contract #dinner #first #first thing






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His second marriage to the actress Barbara Loden lasted from 1969 until her death in 1980 and produced one son. Bright as they come intrepid and with that thing all women secretly respect: complete confidence in his sexual powers confidence so great that he never had to advertise himself even by hints. His father became a rug merchant after emigrating to the United States and expected that his son would go into the family business.

Noted for drawing out the best dramatic performances from his actors he directed 21 actors to Oscar nominations resulting in nine wins. "A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) an adaptation of the stage play which he had also directed received 12 Oscar nominations winning 4 and was Marlon Brando's breakthrough role. He became "one of the consummate filmmakers of the 20th century" after directing a string of successful films including A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) On the Waterfront (1954) and East of Eden (1955).

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