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The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.
Elia Kazan
Society
Belief
American
Will
Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything.
Elia Kazan
Fact
Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
Elia Kazan
Death
Measure
Merit
Waiting
I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
Elia Kazan
Actor
First
Right
I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.
Elia Kazan
Advertising
I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.
Elia Kazan
Experience
Acting
Now
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.
Elia Kazan
Lie
Soul
I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
Elia Kazan
Action
Actor
Nothing
Will
I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
Elia Kazan
Actor
Privilege
I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
Elia Kazan
Communism
Future
I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.
Elia Kazan
Friends
Now