136 Quotes by Elia Kazan

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

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.

Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

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

For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.

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

I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.