top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Success quotes
"Misery suffered did not justify misery to come."
"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented."
"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot, reading is the creative center of a writer's life, you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."
"I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it."
"When you go beyond your limitations, that is called success."
"He who unlocks his greatest potential will reap his greatest treasures."
Explore more quotes by Elia Kazan
"The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more."
"I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this."
"I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique."
"Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?"
"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."
"The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end."
bottom of page