Best Elia Kazan Quotations
- 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… American
- It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's… Absolute
- I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back… Achieve
- I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did. Better
- There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that… All
- For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists. American
- I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me. Bankhead
- Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything. Agreed
- I didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does. Confidence
- Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing. Acting
- I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them. Along
- The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going. Brando
- You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual. Lines