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

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

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

I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.

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