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.

For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

When the market goes to hell, it's more of an opportunity than a problem.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.