Elia Kazan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
There are different reasons to make movies.
-
One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
-
I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
-
When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.
-
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
-
From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
-
I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
-
I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
-
I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
-
I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.
-
I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.
-
You can stroke people with words.
-
Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
-
Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.
-
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
-
I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.
-
I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
-
I like the classic look. Keep it simple. There's only so much you can wear.
-
Abraham Lincoln once said, 'All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my mother.' I'm not sure I want to say it quite like that, but my mother, Sonya Carson, was the earliest, strongest, and most impacting force in my life. It would be impossible to tell about my accomplishments without starting with my mother's influence.
-
I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later.
-
I was a music fan first way before I started creating it, so I still get giddy when I get to be around people that I respect so much.
-
Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become famous.
-
It's hard to bury your head in Los Angeles. People come up to you and say, 'Hey, I saw your picture on a bus.' It's tricky: You're excited by the possibilities, but you don't want to get too crazy.
-
Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.
