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

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

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

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

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