On the day Kazan showed me the completed picture I was so depressed by my performance that I got up and left the screening room.

"If there is a better performance by a man in the history of film in America, I don't know what it is."- Eli Kazan on Brando's performance in On the Waterfront, published in Marlon Brando, Portraits and Film Stills 1946-1995 (1996)