"Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it."
-Elia Kazan
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"I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity."
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"The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal."
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"Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose."
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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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"There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense."
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
-C. S. Lewis
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"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
-Woody Allen
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"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
-Ernst Fischer
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"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
-Groucho Marx
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"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."
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"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
-Andy Warhol
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