The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
– Elia Kazan
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
– Elia Kazan
There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.
– Elia Kazan
The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.
– Elia Kazan
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
– Elia Kazan
Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything.
– Elia Kazan
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
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
I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
– Elia Kazan
I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
– Elia Kazan
I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
– Elia Kazan
I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
– Elia Kazan
I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.