136 Quotes by Elia Kazan

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

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.

If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition

Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

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 was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.

The only guy who was at all helpful as a producer was Sam Spiegel with On the Waterfront. He's one of the few who even knows what he's doing.