Elia Kazan with his marvelous wiles, tripping
the latches of the secret little doors that lead into
the always different personalities of each actor.
That is his secret; not merely to know what must
be done, but to know the way to implement
the doing for actors trained in diametrically
opposite schools, or not trained at all. He does
not “direct,” he creates a center point, and
then goes to each actor and creates the desire
to move toward it. And they all meet, but for
different reasons, and seem to have arrived
there by themselves.

ARTHUR MILLER

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Photo courtesy of the Wesleyan Cinema Archives.