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

I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts.

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

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.