Elia Kazan

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

I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

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

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

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

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

I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

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

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

I didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does.

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

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.