Top 67 Quotes by Elia Kazan

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.

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.

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable.

I may be getting old, but not foolish.

Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

I was always a self-conscious person.

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.

I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.