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I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt. — Elia Kazan

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

If you go to another male,I will kill him.That human tonight is lucky he's alive."

~Jayce Kazan — Katie Reus

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

I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise. — Elia Kazan

Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence. — Ethel Waters

Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting. — Elia Kazan

I've definitely gotten to work with female directors, and I feel lucky because of that. I just feel like more voices should be represented. — Zoe Kazan

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. — Elia Kazan

We all have our essential nature. If you're good with numbers, you don't even know you're good with numbers because that's how your mind works. — Zoe Kazan

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

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. — Elia Kazan

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

My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom. — Zoe Kazan

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

I'm very pro-America, but I feel it necessary to keep in touch with Europe to maintain a perspective. — Elia Kazan

Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer. — Elia Kazan

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

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice. — Zoe Kazan

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

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

I was always a self-conscious person. — Elia Kazan

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

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

I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show. — Elia Kazan

All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind. — Marat Safin

I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb. — Elia Kazan

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

You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow. — Zoe Kazan

I never wanted to be a playwright. — Zoe Kazan

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

I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom more. — Elia Kazan

Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse. — Zoe Kazan

The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough ... to get the machine going. — Elia Kazan

Wonder is our need today, not information. — Elia Kazan

I am not a cosmic orphan. — Elia Kazan

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors ... and that is their competitive sense. — Elia Kazan

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

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

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement. — Elia Kazan

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

I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people. — Zoe Kazan

I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right. — Elia Kazan

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed. — Elia Kazan

I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time. — Zoe Kazan

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique. — Elia Kazan

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly. — Zoe Kazan

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

You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility. — Elia Kazan

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist. — Elia Kazan

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

If I'm not working, I don't feel complete. — Zoe Kazan

I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me. — Elia Kazan

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

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

I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily. — Zoe Kazan

I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play. — Zoe Kazan

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor. — Elia Kazan

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

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end. — Elia Kazan

When we do something we're not proud of, a lot of people don't want to look at that, people may say "what people don't know won't hurt them." — Zoe Kazan

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. — Elia Kazan

Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back. — Elia Kazan

Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you. — Elia Kazan

I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading. — Zoe Kazan

I love to act and that's sort of my first love. That's what I started out doing. — Zoe Kazan

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. — Elia Kazan

I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count! — Zoe Kazan

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

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

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties. — Elia Kazan

Falling in love is an act of magic, so is writing. — Zoe Kazan

In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people. — Zoe Kazan

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays. — Zoe Kazan

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do. — Elia Kazan

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed. — Elia Kazan

I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies. — Zoe Kazan

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

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

Never underestimate a good sleep. — Zoe Kazan

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

I'm always disappointed after an audition when I don't get a part and I hear, "Oh, she was too X, or too Y," and it's too much of a quality. — Zoe Kazan

I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them. — Elia Kazan

I'm an exercise and yoga junkie and I feel good. — Lainie Kazan

Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it. — Elia Kazan

Part of the challenge of being a girl living in the 21st Century, looking back, the danger is to not judge your character by your own standards. — Zoe Kazan

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

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

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem. — Zoe Kazan

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. — Elia Kazan

Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies. — Elia Kazan

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing. — Elia Kazan

Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything. — Elia Kazan

You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is. — Elia Kazan

Any writer can attest that in the luckiest, happiest state, the words are not coming from you, but through you. — Zoe Kazan

When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces. — Zoe Kazan

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate. — Elia Kazan

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did. — Zoe Kazan

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people. — Elia Kazan

You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual. — Elia Kazan