"Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it."
-Elia Kazan
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"The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.“
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"I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity."
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"Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose."
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"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."
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"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
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