Elia Kazan Quotes – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

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

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.

I was always a self-conscious person.

There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

I may be getting old, but not foolish.