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
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.
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.
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.
play conviction motion-pictures
The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
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.
struggle responsibility people
You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.