Elia Kazan Quotes

Some directors, like Stevens [George Stevens], shoot full circle, 360 degrees, and that's what's right for them. I generally shoot at about a seven to one ratio. But part of that is because I've worked on every screenplay, so I'm further along in the visual concept.

Elia Kazan

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• Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.

  

  Park Chan-wook
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• I love the concept of community energy.

  

  Ed Rendell
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• The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.

  

  Taylor Hackford
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• When we talk about dystopias, especially in young adult fiction, a lot of them are essentially science fictional futures. They aren't necessarily tied to the traditional concept of dystopia. And so in that space, my impression is that kids love reading about weird, wild, adventurous places, and dystopia fits that bill.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
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• I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because they came in and started directing things like 'Harry Potter.'

  

  Patricia Riggen
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• I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.

  

  Patricia Marx
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• Theatricality is a concept. It's not a specific language.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
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• The concept of peaceful coexistence has been criticized by many who do not see the need to make the world safe for diversity. I wonder if they have ever paused to ask themselves the question: What is the alternative to coexistence?

  

  U Thant
  • World
  • Question
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• Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Work
  • See
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• I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn't want to be told what to do. I had no identification.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Understand
  • Directors
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• The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

  

  Alan Rickman
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• As a director, I hoped that I was able to help the actors by giving them the space and the respect they need and the trust. I gave them what I always felt I needed when I was working.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Help
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• I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.

  

  Angelina Jolie
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• The nice thing about being a director is that I can say, "I can only get into the room after the kids are at school, and I have to be back for dinner. And they're coming for lunch."

  

  Angelina Jolie
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• As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.

  

  Xavier Dolan
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• If you're sounding right, you're probably walking right, and vice versa. If you get the footwork right - if you get even one line right in a rehearsal, the director will say, do you know when you said that, it was exactly the character. You were - really landed on it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• With regard to my case, the concept has been called a 'sign of the apocalypse' and listed under the News of the Weird.

  

  Tyler Hamilton
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• Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule.

  

  Satyajit Ray
  • Sometimes
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• The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Body
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• Who wants to live forever?

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
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• I love Whitney Houston. I absolutely love her song, I Wanna Dance With Somebody.

  

  Hayley Orrantia
  • Song
  • Whitney Houston
  • I Wanna Dance With Somebody

• Some directors, like Stevens [George Stevens], shoot full circle, 360 degrees, and that's what's right for them. I generally shoot at about a seven to one ratio. But part of that is because I've worked on every screenplay, so I'm further along in the visual concept.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Directors
  • Concept
  • Screenplay