America, America (1963)

Garabet: [Talking about money] Now then, big money. Big money is fertile. It procreates. How I don't know. But it reproduces itself. Every time you look, there's more, but there's only two ways men like us can get big money... steal it, or, if you're young, marry. But you can't get it by work.

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Aratoon Kebabian: [Sleepily in his bed aboard ship] Bertha... how do flies get on a ship?

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Garabet: [Philosophically] There's too much dirt for a broom.

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Estelle Helmsley, who plays the Greek grandmother, was actually an African-American actress.
Of all the films he had directed, this one was Elia Kazan's favorite film, as it was very personal to him.
Kazan began shooting in Istanbul, but was concerned that Turkish officials would object to some of the material content and moved his base of production to Greece.
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