Elia Kazan

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up. ”

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it. ”

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. ”

You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is. ”

Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything. ”

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul. ”

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

I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am. ”

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. ”

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. ”