Elia Kazan Quotes
The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
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The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.
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But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.
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I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.
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Not every artist is a role model.
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I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.
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The way the Facebook network is set up, it's not as suitable for content discovery. Twitter is better, but there are too many over-sharers. Also, on Twitter and Facebook, everything comes from people you know. On StumbleUpon, it comes from people that you don't necessarily know but share your interests.
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It was improv that really helped me start coming up with recipes and just believe in my instincts. That's why the first recipe I made up was 'I Ain't Chicken Chicken' because I finally felt bold and fearless in the kitchen, which was an entirely new feeling for me.
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If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?
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Doing something for Victoria's Secret would be great - I love Doutzen Kroes. She's so special to look at but seems like a very normal person. She's true to herself - that's important to me.
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Just try to add more things to my game each year.
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I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.
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Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films.
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The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
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When you do well at an audition, it is the highest high you can achieve because you just beat yourself. You became whatever it was, for a minute. It's a great feeling when that happens.
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Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good
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He was eccentric. He was no prince in his social attitudes and his politics. But Henry Ford's mark in history is almost unbelievable.
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The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa.
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Think about 'GoodFellas': It could be a textbook on how not to write a screenplay. It leans on voice-over at the beginning, then abandons it for a while, then the character just talks right into the camera at the end. That structure is so unusual that you don't have any sense of what's going to happen next.
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I have no recipe for how to combine things. But you must be sincere. And if you are, strangely, it will succeed.
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Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that no war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe. The principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the nation. Germany needs peace and desires peace!
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I think for an artist there are so many things to make pictures of now, that everyone else may be suffering, but at least artists will just be stimulated by it all.
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The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
