Top 67 Quotes by Elia Kazan

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.

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.

The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.

I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.

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.

Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything.