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

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.

It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's truly happening - if anything, if nothing. A close-up demands absolute truth. It's a severe and awesome truth

Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.

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

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

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