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Elia Kazan

"I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor."

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A.E. Samaan

"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

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A.E. Samaan

"You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain."

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A.E. Samaan

"I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right."

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A.E. Samaan

"A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills."

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A.E. Samaan

"I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be."

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A.E. Samaan

"I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director."

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A.E. Samaan

"I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profession!"

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A.E. Samaan

"I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality."

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A.E. Samaan

"For no. 1, it's great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it's great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just - it was just like we were all meant to be there together."

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A.E. Samaan

"I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings."

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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."

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Elia Kazan
"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."

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Elia Kazan
"The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more."

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Elia Kazan
"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."

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Elia Kazan
"I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement."

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Elia Kazan
"I was always a self-conscious person."

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Elia Kazan
"You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility."

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Elia Kazan
"Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it."

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Elia Kazan
"I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me."

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

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