Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable.

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.

I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.