Take it from a director: if ...

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you\'ve been blessed.
Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.
 Elia Kazan

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Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.
 Randy Alcorn
Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very grateful to Almighty God, who gives us victory.
All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

Quotes from the same author

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
 Elia Kazan
One final thing a director needs: The ability to say 'I am wrong' or 'I was wrong.' Not as easy as it sounds. But in many situations, these 3 words, honestly spoken, will save the day.
 Elia Kazan
You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
 Elia Kazan
I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.
 Elia Kazan
It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's truly happening - if anything, if nothing. A close-up demands absolute truth. It's a severe and awesome truth
 Elia Kazan