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I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#damn #dollars #experience #exposed #go

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

— Elia Kazan

#film #going #i #important #make

Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#cursed #everything #fact #our #relationship

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

— Elia Kazan

#direction #poetry #prose #realistic #stylized

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#automatically #communists #daily #democracy #i

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#concentration #essence #movement #penetration #screen

I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#expect #fear #free #i #i am

I said to the almond tree, "Friend, speak to me of God," and the almond tree blossomed. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#friend #god #i #me #said

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#country #creates #every #perfect #traveler

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. ↗

— Alfred Kazin

#make #minds #oneself #others #paper