In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell.

That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself.