A biography for Elia Kazanhasn’t been written yet.
“Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.”
“I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.”
“I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.”
“When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.”
“I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.”
“I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.”
“For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.”