Nikos Kazantzakis

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1883 age 0

   Born

2. 1957 age 74

   Died

3. 1964 age 74

   CreditZorba the Greekscreenwriter

4. 1988 age 74

   CreditThe Last Temptation of Christscreenwriter

• TATomas Arana1 title
• HKHarvey Keitel1 title
• PGPeter Gabriel1 title
• HSHarry Dean Stanton1 title
• IKIrvin Kershner1 title
• WDWillem Dafoe1 title
• RBRoberts Blossom1 title
• NPNehemiah Persoff1 title
• MSMartin Scorsese1 title
• MBMichael Ballhaus1 title

• Influenced by

  • JBJohann Sebastian Bach
  • LTLeo Tolstoy

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Studied under, Taught.

• I am a mariner of Odysseus with heart of fire but with mind ruthless and clear.

  Nikos Kazantzakis, CC BY-SA 4.0

• We are not simple people who believe in happiness; nor weaklings who crumple to the ground in distress at the first reverse; nor skeptics observing the bloody effort of marching humanity from the lofty heights of a mocking, sterile wit. Believing in the fight, though we entertain no illusions about it, we are armed against every disappointment.

  Nikos Kazantzakis, CC BY-SA 4.0

• God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!

  Nikos Kazantzakis, CC BY-SA 4.0

• We, who are dying, are doing better, than they, who will live. For Crete doesn't need householders, she needs madmen like us. These madmen make Crete immortal.

  Nikos Kazantzakis, CC BY-SA 4.0

• All my life I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind.

  Nikos Kazantzakis, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I said to the almond tree: "Speak to me of God."<br>And the almond tree blossomed.

  Nikos Kazantzakis, CC BY-SA 4.0