One final thing a director needs: The ability to say 'I am wrong' or 'I was wrong.' Not as easy as it sounds. But in many situations, these 3 words, honestly spoken, will save the day.

Wonder is our need today, not information.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

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

Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.

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.