Top 67 Quotes by Elia Kazan

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

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.

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

I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.

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

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