Elia Kazan Quotes
The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going.
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
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When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the world did not match. I had to start writing from my heart.
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Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
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Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
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I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me – you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.
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God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same theme that God revealed to all of the prophets, even before Muhammad.
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Ethical control may survive in small groups, but the control of the population as a whole must be delegated to specialists-to police, priests, owners, teachers, therapists, and so on, with their specialized reinforcers and their codified contingencies.
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Film is this incredible medium that allows us to feel empathy for people that are very different than us and worlds completely foreign from our own.
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There are so many young women who throw their talent away.
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I was a chemical engineer in school. And, randomly, an ex-girlfriend dared me to do a play.
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Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.
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Books were my Internet, my TV, my movies all rolled into one.
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I am not drinking now but I cannot guarantee tomorrow.
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We're talking to New Line. They've got a couple projects they're interested in me doing and I'm having meetings at MGM. There's a lot of available projects.
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I really enjoy sailing on Lake Geneva because I can just look at the shore and see my wife having a barbecue with the kids.
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I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
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Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there is a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions, on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone. He had believed in the stories for a long time, until the teachers at Indian school taught him not to believe in that kind of "nonsense". But they had been wrong.
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Do not need to look for reasons to hate when there is reason to love.
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I hear so many complaints to the effect that Negroes do not take advantage of the educational opportunities offered them. Well, one of the reasons why more of my race do not go in for higher education is that as soon as one of us gets his head above the crowd there are millions of feet ready to crush it back again to that dead level of commonplace thus creating a racial deadline of culture in our Republic. For how am I to compete with other American artists if I am not to be given the same opportunity?
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The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going.
