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.

When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.

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.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

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

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