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

I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.

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.

For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.

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

I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.

I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.