Elia Kazan Quotes
An American film and theatre director, film and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and co-founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947.
(1909 - 2003)
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A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
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A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
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Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
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Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.
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Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
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Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.
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For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.
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Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you.
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I didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does.
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I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
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I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.
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I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.
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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.
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I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later.
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I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
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I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.
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I may be getting old, but not foolish.
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I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.
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I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
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I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
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