I joined the Communist Party late in the summer of 1934. I got out a year and a half later.
Elia KazanThe motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
Elia KazanThe essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
Elia KazanThe physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.
Elia Kazan