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Elia Kazan

"A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people."

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Donna Grant

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

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Donna Grant

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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Donna Grant

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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Donna Grant

"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

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Donna Grant

"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."

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Donna Grant

"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

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Donna Grant

"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."

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Donna Grant

"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

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Donna Grant

"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

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Donna Grant

"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

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Elia 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."

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Elia Kazan
"I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise."

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

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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."

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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
"What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties."

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Elia Kazan
"I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity."

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Elia 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."

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"I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later."

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Elia Kazan
"I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest."

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