Quotes by Elia Kazan

“Youve got to keep fighting - youve got to risk your life every six months to stay alive”

“He was smart, he knew everything.”

“Jesus Christ, he is Cal!”

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

“If there is a better performance by a man in the history of film, I dont know what it is.”

“I thought what a terrible thing I had done; not the political aspect of it because maybe that was correct but it didnt matter now. Correct or not, all that mattered was the human side of things. I felt no political cause was worth hurting another human being for.”

“Ive been ratting on myself all these years and I didnt know it. Im glad what I done.”

Youve got to keep fighting - youve got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Youve got to keep fighting-youve got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

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

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

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

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others dont dare reveal.

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.