Elia Kazan Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.”

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

“Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.”

“The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.”

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

“There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.”

“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.”

“I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.”

“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 was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.”