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If you go to another male,I will kill him.That human tonight is lucky he's alive."
~Jayce Kazan — Katie Reus
~Jayce Kazan — Katie Reus
I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
— Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.
— Ethel Waters
I've definitely gotten to work with female directors, and I feel lucky because of that. I just feel like more voices should be represented.
— Zoe Kazan
I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.
— Elia Kazan
We all have our essential nature. If you're good with numbers, you don't even know you're good with numbers because that's how your mind works.
— Zoe Kazan
I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.
— Elia Kazan
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
The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
— Elia Kazan
My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom.
— Zoe Kazan
Acting ... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
— Elia Kazan
I'm very pro-America, but I feel it necessary to keep in touch with Europe to maintain a perspective.
— Elia Kazan
Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.
— Elia Kazan
I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
— Zoe Kazan
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
— Elia Kazan
I was always a self-conscious person.
— Elia Kazan
'A Face in the Crowd' is Elia Kazan's forgotten movie.
— Peyton Reed
You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
— Elia Kazan
The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
— Elia Kazan
All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
— Marat Safin
I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
— Elia Kazan
I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
— Elia Kazan
The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It's to survive as yourself, undiminished.
— Elia Kazan
The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts.
— Elia Kazan
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
Wonder is our need today, not information.
— Elia Kazan
Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
— Elia Kazan
I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.
— Elia Kazan
I'm an exercise and yoga junkie and I feel good.
— Lainie Kazan
I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.
— Elia Kazan
I've lost many of my best friends ... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.
— Elia Kazan
I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
— Zoe Kazan
The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.
— Elia Kazan
When we do something we're not proud of, a lot of people don't want to look at that, people may say "what people don't know won't hurt them."
— Zoe Kazan
The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.
— Elia Kazan
To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable.
— Elia Kazan
I am not a cosmic orphan.
— Elia Kazan
And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.
— Zoe Kazan
I forgive 'Face in the Crowd' its uneven tone because it's precisely what makes it feel unlike other Kazan movies.
— Peyton Reed
I never wanted to be a playwright.
— Zoe Kazan
When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.
— Elia Kazan
I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.
— Zoe Kazan
Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
— Zoe Kazan
The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.
— Elia Kazan
Never underestimate a good sleep.
— Zoe Kazan
I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.
— Elia Kazan
The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.
— Elia Kazan
The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.
— Elia Kazan
Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.
— Elia Kazan
You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.
— Elia Kazan
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
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.
— Elia Kazan
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
— Elia Kazan
There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors ... and that is their competitive sense.
— Elia Kazan
Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.
— Elia Kazan
The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough ... to get the machine going.
— Elia Kazan
You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
— Zoe Kazan
I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
— Zoe Kazan
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
I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.
— Zoe Kazan
I'm always disappointed after an audition when I don't get a part and I hear, "Oh, she was too X, or too Y," and it's too much of a quality.
— Zoe Kazan
Any writer can attest that in the luckiest, happiest state, the words are not coming from you, but through you.
— Zoe Kazan
When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
— Zoe Kazan
In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.
— Zoe Kazan
Part of the challenge of being a girl living in the 21st Century, looking back, the danger is to not judge your character by your own standards.
— Zoe Kazan
I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading.
— Zoe Kazan
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
— Elia Kazan
I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!
— Zoe Kazan
I was an outsider ... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.
— Elia Kazan