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Elia Kazan Quotes

I may be getting old, but not foolish.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: September 7, 1909 - September 28, 2003

Topics

Getting Old Old Foolish May Getting

It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it.

Nothing Grass Difficult Left Started

I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl.

Jennette McCurdy

Girl Growing Up Growing Never Room

I remember 'Roots' growing up and the cultural impact it had on the country. Watching 'Roots' was not the cool remove of reading about slavery in a book or hearing about it in class. It became something that swept people along.

People Cool Roots Growing Up Reading

I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.

Look Know Say Why Mess Things

One of the things my success as an author has forced me to face is how dysfunctional... Maybe that's a strong word, but how obsessive I am.

Success I Am Me Face Strong Things

There certainly is no secret in that there are plenty of people who don't like plenty of my movies. Each one of my films is personal; each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that. With each one of my films, I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a little in the film.

Myself People Movies Personal My Own

The best things arrive on time.

Time Best Things Arrive

It's hard to watch your life unfold, and sad. Life changes.

Life Sad Life Changes Changes Hard

Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.

People Prison Think Jail Never Bail

If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for their state.

Brian Reynolds Myers

Peace Support Survive Start Need

I pored over art books and absorbed the placidness of Monet's garden, the sparkling color of the Impressionists, the strength and solidity of Michelangelo's figures showing the titanic power of humans at one with God, Jan Vermeer's serene Dutch women bathed in gorgeous honey-colored light... My conviction grew that art was stronger than death.

Strength Women God Power Art Light

Everybody wants a movie career. I found that pretty elusive. I did make a movie with Martin Sheen about a nuclear scientist who has a religious experience. I don't even know what it was called. I don't think it was ever released.

Tim Pigott-Smith

Experience Think Career Know Pretty

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