Quotes By Elia Kazan
I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.
Elia Kazan
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
Elia Kazan
The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.
Elia Kazan
I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.
Elia Kazan
I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
Elia Kazan
For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.
Elia Kazan
I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.
Elia Kazan
I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.
Elia Kazan
What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.
Elia Kazan
I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.
Elia Kazan
I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
Elia Kazan
I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
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Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
Elia Kazan
The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
Elia Kazan
The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.
Elia Kazan