Top 67 Quotes by Elia Kazan

I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

I didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does.

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

I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

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.

I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later.