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Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
-Elia Kazan
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Stylized Acting And Direction Is To Realistic

Elia Kazan
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
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Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations can produce good prose. so don't think of poetry as a perverse and unnatural way of distorting ordinary prose statements: prose is a much less natural way of speaking than poetry is. if you listen to small children, and to the amount of chanting and singsong in their speech, you'll see what i mean.
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There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.
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But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. but that's not a reason not to write love poetry. some of the best poetry ever written has been love poetry, and some of the greatest poetry ever written has been political poetry.
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I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. i've always liked fairy tales and myths, magical stories. i think they are somehow closer to the sense of reality one feels today than the equally stylized 'realistic' story in which a great deal of selectivity and omission has to occur in order to preserve its 'realist' style.
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Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.
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In general, i would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. in the old days, i read more poetry than prose, but now it is in prose where you find things being put together well, where there is great ambition, and equal talent. poets have gotten so careless, it is a disgrace. you can’t pick up a page. all the words slide off.
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