People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way. Elia Kazan More Quotes by Elia Kazan More Quotes From Elia Kazan Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick? Elia Kazan appreciate acting artist Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it. Elia Kazan miracle successful littles I may be getting old, but not foolish. Elia Kazan stupid foolish may I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise. Elia Kazan too-much stars thinking I joined the Communist Party late in the summer of 1934. I got out a year and a half later. Elia Kazan party half years The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. Elia Kazan writing beautiful life I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb. Elia Kazan thumbs collaboration thinking I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable. Elia Kazan I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt. Elia Kazan suffering self doubt I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice. Elia Kazan hearing voice secret The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts. Elia Kazan microscopes cameras people I was always a self-conscious person. Elia Kazan self-conscious conscious self 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 gossip successful made The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep. Elia Kazan movement essence action The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate. Elia Kazan anticipate ambivalent uncertain Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him. Elia Kazan fighter make-or-break fighting I know many of the critics and I don't think of them as God-like figures. What can they do to hurt me? Sure, I might be slightly embarrassed for a day, but then you just go your own way. Elia Kazan hurt might thinking I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor. Elia Kazan privilege actors thinking If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition Elia Kazan cowboy horse play I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual. Elia Kazan unusual littles directors
