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I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

- Elia Kazan
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Elia Kazan
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I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.

Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.

I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.

I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

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