Latest Elia Kazan Quotes from Interviews

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• 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

  Circles, Directors, Degrees

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I left the theater; I literally left to begin a new life.

  Elia Kazan

  New Life, Theater, Left

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm very pro-America, but I feel it necessary to keep in touch with Europe to maintain a perspective.

  Elia Kazan

  Europe, America, Perspective

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom more.

  Elia Kazan

  Turkeys, Appreciate, Climate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• TV has made us get down to the nub and new films will begin to live up to what the medium can be.

  Elia Kazan

  Tvs, Film, Made

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• With kids you can take a chance but casting a guy at 45 is different. You don't discover somebody that age. If an actor hasn't made it by that time he probably has no talent.

  Elia Kazan

  Kids, Guy, Age

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I know many of the critics and I don't think of them as God-like figures. What can they do to hurt me? Sure, I might be slightly embarrassed for a day, but then you just go your own way.

  Elia Kazan

  Hurt, Thinking, Might

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The thing with films is that you have to make something that will get people out of their houses, away from the TV set. You must touch people, say something. Otherwise, they'll stay at home.

  Elia Kazan

  Home, People, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The only guy who was at all helpful as a producer was Sam Spiegel with On the Waterfront. He's one of the few who even knows what he's doing.

  Elia Kazan

  Guy, Helpful, The Waterfront

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There aren't many male stars - that's a loose term - like Kirk [Douglas] around. Most of those virile personalities have to keep working, continue the image because they can't do anything else. They don't even read. Their real identity is in making those pictures. They have to keep jumping on horses and hitting somebody on the head with a gun.

  Elia Kazan

  Horse, Stars, Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I won't go back to the theater. I like some of the things they're doing but it's different now, not something I could do. I'll go on making films the rest of my life.

  Elia Kazan

  Different, Goes On, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way.

  Elia Kazan

  People, Suggestions, Way

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• Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies.

  Elia Kazan

  Writing, People, Buried

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director.

  Elia Kazan

  Directors, Problem, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com