"Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting……" — Elia Kazan

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

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88 Quotes by Elia Kazan

Elia Kazan has 88 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.
I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.
I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's…
Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.
The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their…
If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition
Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.
The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.
The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
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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More Acting Quotes

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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the… — Victoria Abril
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a… — Mary Kay Ash
We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation… — Julian Assange
I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling… — Rowan Atkinson
What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences,… — Jensen Ackles
You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social… — Amitabh Bachchan
I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different… — Kevin Bacon
A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly. — Kevin Bacon
I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game. — Kevin Bacon

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