Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan
Elia Kazanwas a Greek-American director, producer, writer and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth7 September 1909
CityIstanbul, Turkey
CountryUnited States of America
tvs film made
TV has made us get down to the nub and new films will begin to live up to what the medium can be.
writing people buried
Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies.
people together determined
The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.
self-worth ideas actors
You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.
betrayal lying soul
I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.
voice secret hearing
I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
practice democracy communist
The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.
believe fighting effort
I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.
aspect cause correct felt human hurting matter mattered maybe political side terrible worth
I thought what a terrible thing I had done; not the political aspect of it because maybe that was correct but it didn't matter now. Correct or not, all that mattered was the human side of things. I felt no political cause was worth hurting another human being for.
american-director revealing
You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.
glad
I've been ratting on myself all these years and I didn't know it. I'm glad what I done.
business decision way
What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.
blessed directors actors
Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.
successful miracle littles
Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.