"A film director has to get a shot,……" — Elia Kazan
"A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people."
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88 Quotes by Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan has 88 quotes on this site.
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You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
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The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.
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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
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I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.
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I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's…
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Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.
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The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their…
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If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition
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Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.
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The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.
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The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
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I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.
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I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me…
— Emmanuelle Beart
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.
— Jo Brand
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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state…
— Andre Breton
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Are we not all desperate one way or another?
— Taylor Caldwell
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People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what…
— George Carlin
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I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything.…
— Jim Carrey
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That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my…
— Charlie Chaplin
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'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case.…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you.
— Kirstie Alley
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When I am not desperate, I am worthless.
— Ivo Andric
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If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine - but to hang…
— Frank Zappa
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