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.

I joined the Communist Party late in the summer of 1934. I got out a year and a half later.

Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you.

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.

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but it is bitter and unforgettable.

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

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