Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did. "
Elia Kazan
Communism
True
Than
Related Quotes:
" The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate. "
Elia Kazan
You
Cannot
More
" I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends. "
Elia Kazan
Myself
Best
Friends
" There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense. "
Elia Kazan
Respect
Sense
Competitive
" 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
People
Together
Escape
" I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable. "
Elia Kazan
Compliant
Nor
Agreeable
" I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show. "
Elia Kazan
Show
Said
Becoming
" You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive. "
Elia Kazan
You
Stay
Risk
" You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is. "
Elia Kazan
Actor
Self-Worth
Fragile
" I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action. "
Elia Kazan
Say
Nothing
Actor
" 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. "
Elia Kazan
Enough
Walk
Away
" I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise. "
Elia Kazan
Money
Think
Value
" I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist. "
Elia Kazan
Bohemian
Person
Elitist
" Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. "
Elia Kazan
Acting
Realistic
Poetry
" I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor. "
Elia Kazan
Actor
Think
Very
" A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do. "
Elia Kazan
Director
Going
Good
" I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action. "
Elia Kazan
Important
Film
Action
" 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
Way
Soul
Left
" Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it. "
Elia Kazan
Miracle
Picture
Little
" The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions. "
Elia Kazan
Convictions
Motion
Pictures
" Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing. "
Elia Kazan
Critic
Acting
Actor
" 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
Waiting
Death
He
" 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
Tell
Spy
Time
" I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right. "
Elia Kazan
Call
Did
Right
" The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed. "
Elia Kazan
Communists
Which
Daily
" Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him. "
Elia Kazan
Him
Fighter
Breaks
" I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt. "
Elia Kazan
Suffer
Contradiction
Fear
" I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood. "
Elia Kazan
Power
Political
Believe
" Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything. "
Elia Kazan
Everything
Fact
Our
" What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties. "
Elia Kazan
Go
Way
Decision
" The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more. "
Elia Kazan
Win
Society
Good