East of Eden: Art in Search of Life

00:00:17 East of Eden is one of Steinbeck's most important books.

00:01:02 My father loved cautionary tales. He thought he could save...

00:01:52 It took a long time to get from Salinas to Monterey in those days.

00:02:39 of the environment they grew up in. I think based on the same thing.

00:03:35 I never really knew what she was like. She wasn't like other people.

00:04:23 My father didn't believe in absolute evil or absolute good, period.

00:04:59 Elia Kazan could only allow himself one, and Abra was it.

00:05:42 ...it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world.

00:06:39 he was unforgiving...

00:07:30 that if Kazan was making the film, it was Kazan's movie, not his.

00:08:15 "Jack Warner said, 'What do you want to do? ' I said, 'East of Eden. "'

00:09:03 I called Steinbeck up, I said:

00:09:54 And Kazan decided that he would commit to Jimmy.

00:10:40 They wanted to see if I looked too old for him...

00:11:25 this terrible relationship with Jimmy Dean.

00:12:12 you had to really be there.

00:12:59 to be accepted by the one person that you love most in the world.

00:13:51 or anything about him.

00:14:29 by some hint or other, by some stimulus or other.

00:15:23 And he was so exciting to be with.

00:16:12 I'll always remember the last day of shooting.

00:17:02 We are such things, such stuff as dreams are made of.

00:17:50 what's going on with other people.

00:18:30 of what these guys were doing.