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
self-worth ideas actors
You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.
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.
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.
thinking privilege actors
I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
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.
criticism bigs bites
Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.
thinking thumbs collaboration
I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.
causes hey hey-you
Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you.
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.
acting realistic poetry-is
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.