Elia Kazan Quotes

I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.

The unknown is very appealing to me. I like to be surprised. I love the idea I might know less at the end of reading something than I do at the beginning.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

People are looking for certainty. The more complex the world becomes, the more people look for people to give them certainty and tell them what to do. During the past few years of actively thinking about this, there is one thing that I have accepted: certainty is not out there. There is not one strategy to follow, and that's OK.

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

You never know how things are going to turn out in a movie. You can imagine a scene one way, and it can turn out to be completely the polar opposite of what you expected. You just have to roll with the punches.

I am more of a surprise kind of guy. I love to find out as I go.

… a world without certainty can be richer, in all senses of the word, than a world with false convictions.

I've learned to never rule anything in or out.

I never rule anything in or out; life can surprise you.

I never rule anything out, you never know what's to come.

Life is full of surprises: new opportunities come up; that's part of the fun - the adventure of life. The thing is, chaos doesn't allow us to enjoy the adventure.

I am always living in the now, so I like what fate brings to you. That's always fun for me. To have a process and someone be like, 'How about this?' And you just grab onto that and see where it takes you.

The one thing I've learned in sports entertainment is that nothing is for certain, and you never say never.

Things always change and you can't ever say never, because you don't know what is around the corner.

I'm open to making any kind of music, or maybe making no music ever again. That's also an option, always. Who knows what'll happen.

If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

I am unable to rule anything out.

Nothing's planned. Never say never.

I like the not knowing of what the next job is.

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

I'm not really good at being predictive, so I guess I'm willing to be surprised.