Skip to content

Cinema Quote by Elia Kazan

“The thing with films is that you have to make something that will get people out of their houses, away from the TV set. You must touch people, say something. Otherwise, they'll stay at home.” quote by Elia Kazan — Download Open image

“The thing with films is that you have to make something that will get people out of their houses, away from the TV set. You must touch people, say something. Otherwise, they'll stay at home.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings)

Cinema Film Home House People Stay at home Tvs

More by Elia Kazan

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

Image

I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director.

Image

Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.

Image

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

Image

You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.

Image

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

Image

If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition

Image

I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

Image

You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.

Image

There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money,…

Image

The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.

Image

I'm very pro-America, but I feel it necessary to keep in touch with Europe to maintain a perspective.

Explore all 97 Elia Kazan quotes

More Cinema quotes

I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have…

Image

You have to have a great director to make a great movie.

Thelma Schoonmaker

Image

I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier.

Image

I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived.

Image

There was a time in the 1980s when I worked in 22 films a year.

Image

To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to these pictures firsthand experience begins to retreat, to seem more and more trivial. While it once seemed that pictures had the function of interpreting reality, it now seems they have usurped it. It therefore becomes imperative…

In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but…

Image

I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor…

Image

I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people.

Image

Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.…

Image

I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.…

Laura Carmichael

Image

I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images

Federico Fellini

Image

Browse all 23,933 Cinema quotes