Elia Kazan - Best Quotes

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.

Death

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

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.

Courage

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

Elia Kazan

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

Cool

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

Elia Kazan

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

Art

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

Elia Kazan

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

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Author: Elia Kazan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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