Elia Kazan

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

I love Hindi films.

I truly believe that fundamentalism stems from unemployment. A man without a job is desperate; he doesn't want to live anyway.