Elia Kazan

You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive. ”

I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made. ”

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. ”

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep. ”

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. ”