Kazan : The Master Director Discusses His Films

CONVERSATIONS WITH A MASTER FILMMAKER

Through a series of interviews with Jeff Young, Elia Kazan examines his directing career in detail. Moving film by film, he discusses staging techniques, his approach to casting, and his methods for developing performances. An important resource for understanding directing methodology and American cinema of the period.

Elia Kazan was also very close to Sanford Meisner, to whom he proposed to become director of the Actors Studio when he left NYC to pursue his directing career in LA, an offer Meisner refused. Many of the famous actors “from the Actors Studio” that he worked with were also trained by Sanford Meisner.

"Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you’ve been blessed."

• Elia Kazan