Elia Kazan Quotes

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Elia Kazan

Profession : Director

Birth : September 7, 1909

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

Elia Kazan

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

Elia 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

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.

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

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

Elia Kazan