Elia Kazan Quotes
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There are different reasons to make movies.
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One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
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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.
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When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You can stroke people with words.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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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.
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I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
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I like the classic look. Keep it simple. There's only so much you can wear.
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It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there, and the next day they are there. They're alive, and they're whispering in my head and all that stuff, and I want to write about those things.
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So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.
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The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.
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I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue.
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Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.
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Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.
