Miller didnt write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. Thats the measure of its merit. – Elia Kazan
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it. – Elia Kazan
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others dont dare reveal. – Elia Kazan
I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement. – Elia Kazan
My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, hes always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination. – Cornel West