Elia Kazan Quotes

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

Year, Late, Party

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

Made, She, Gift

I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
Elia Kazan

Money, Stars, Question

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

Said, Show, Becoming

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

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
Elia Kazan

Power, Political, Thinking

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
Elia Kazan

Courage, Generosity, Thank

I was always a self-conscious person.
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.
Elia Kazan

Money, Successful, Gossip

I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.
Elia Kazan

Along, Quit, Superior

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

Person, Collective, Bohemian

I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
Elia Kazan

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
Elia Kazan

Art, Hero, Working

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

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
Elia Kazan

Actor, Intense, Privilege

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

Nothing, Cannot, Action

I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.
Elia Kazan

Experience, Yourself, Acting

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

Important, Word, Action

I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.
Elia Kazan

Small, Nor, Neither

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.
Elia Kazan

Best, Lost, Friends

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.
Elia Kazan

Death, Waiting, Him

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

Everything, Fact, Cursed

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
Elia Kazan

Poetry, Acting, Direction

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.
Elia Kazan

Good, Society, Win

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

Daily, Democracy, Communists

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: September 7, 1909

Died: September 28, 2003

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