Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it. -Elia Kazan Cool
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. -Elia Kazan Poetry
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. -Elia Kazan Art
I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood. -Elia Kazan Power
