Top 80 Elia Kazan Quotes (2024 Update)
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Elia Kazan Quote: “Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you’ve been blessed.”

51. “Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you’ve been blessed.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “With kids you can take a chance but casting a guy at 45 is different. You don’t discover somebody that age. If an actor hasn’t made it by that time he probably has no talent.”

52. “With kids you can take a chance but casting a guy at 45 is different. You don’t discover somebody that age. If an actor hasn’t made it by that time he probably has no talent.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “I hate the Communists and have for many years and don’t feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.”

53. “I hate the Communists and have for many years and don’t feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.”

54. “I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “I was able to capture on film things the actors didn’t even know they were doing.”

55. “I was able to capture on film things the actors didn’t even know they were doing.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.”

56. “I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.”

57. “I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “I don’t remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.”

58. “I don’t remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “I didn’t have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course – I always wanted to be a film director.”

59. “I didn’t have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course – I always wanted to be a film director.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “I’m going to make a film where not one word is really important. I’m going to make it all action.”

60. “I’m going to make a film where not one word is really important. I’m going to make it all action.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “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.”

61. “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 Quote: “Very often the Group actor is a critic when he’s acting and an actor when he’s criticizing.”

62. “Very often the Group actor is a critic when he’s acting and an actor when he’s criticizing.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “I’m small, but I’m neither compliant nor agreeable.”

63. “I’m small, but I’m neither compliant nor agreeable.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don’t know what he has, you don’t know what the hell is going on.”

64. “When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don’t know what he has, you don’t know what the hell is going on.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.”

65. “I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable.”

66. “To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “TV has made us get down to the nub and new films will begin to live up to what the medium can be.”

67. “TV has made us get down to the nub and new films will begin to live up to what the medium can be.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “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.”

68. “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.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.”

69. “The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.”

70. “I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later.”

71. “I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “I was very intense. I think it’s a privilege to be an actor.”

72. “I was very intense. I think it’s a privilege to be an actor.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “A good director’s not sure when he gets on the set what he’s going to do.”

73. “A good director’s not sure when he gets on the set what he’s going to do.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.”

74. “The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “I was not what you’d call a first-class actor, but I did all right.”

75. “I was not what you’d call a first-class actor, but I did all right.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “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.”

76. “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.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.”

77. “I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.”

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

Elia Kazan Quote: “I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.”

79. “I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.”

80. “The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “I’m very pro-America, but I feel it necessary to keep in touch with Europe to maintain a perspective.”

81. “I’m very pro-America, but I feel it necessary to keep in touch with Europe to maintain a perspective.”

Elia Kazan Quote: “Some things exist only because they’re talked about.”

82. “Some things exist only because they’re talked about.”

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