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Elia Kazan

Elia Kazan (born Elias Kazantzoglou, Greek: ????? ????????????, September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was a Greek-American director, producer, writer and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history".

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To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste ...

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

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

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other c ...

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

I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later.

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

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

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

There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in ...

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

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

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cann ...

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

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