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
goes-on different film
I won't go back to the theater. I like some of the things they're doing but it's different now, not something I could do. I'll go on making films the rest of my life.
kids guy age
With kids you can take a chance but casting a guy at 45 is different. You don't discover somebody that age. If an actor hasn't made it by that time he probably has no talent.
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.
home people house
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.
horse stars real
There aren't many male stars - that's a loose term - like Kirk [Douglas] around. Most of those virile personalities have to keep working, continue the image because they can't do anything else. They don't even read. Their real identity is in making those pictures. They have to keep jumping on horses and hitting somebody on the head with a gun.
writing people buried
Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies.
new-life theater left
I left the theater; I literally left to begin a new life.
successful gossip columns
I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.
class firsts actors
I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
thinking privilege actors
I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
actors broadway one-thing
There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.
important action film
I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.
actors dinner firsts
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.
play conviction motion-pictures
The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.