You’ve got to keep fighting – you’ve got to risk your life every six months to stay alive. Elia Kazan Read Quote
I’ve lost many of my best friends… I’m going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends. Elia Kazan Read Quote
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 Read Quote
What’s called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties. Elia Kazan Read Quote
The thing about Brando was that I’d make these directions, and he’d walk away. He’d heard enough… to get the machine going. Elia Kazan Read Quote
The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it. Elia Kazan Read Quote
I like directors who come on the set and create something that’s a little dangerous, difficult or unusual. Elia Kazan Read Quote
You can’t just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual. Elia Kazan Read Quote