Elia Kazan

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

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