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

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Aratoon Kebabian: [to Stavros] You know, I've never seen a face like you except in a cage.

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Kazan speaks the credits at the end but omits voicing his own name.
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.
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