I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste… — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
I joined the Communist Party late in the summer of 1934. I got out a year and a half later. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money,… — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
I'm very pro-America, but I feel it necessary to keep in touch with Europe to maintain a perspective. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
